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Author:   Anne Spry Rush (Instructor, Department of History, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.588kg
ISBN:  

9780199588558

ISBN 10:   0199588554
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Fashioning Britishness Prelude 1: Schooling Britons 2: Royalty and the Bonds of Empire Part Two: The People's Empire: Mobilizing the Power of Britishness Prelude 3: A Model for Secession? The 1936 Abdication Crisis 4: Hewing to Tradition: Education Debates in the 1930s and 1940s 5: Imperial Identities in Colonial Minds: The League of Coloured Peoples 6: 'One United Family': The World at War 7: Egalitarian Imperialism: The BBC and the West Indies 1920s-1940s Part Three: Continuity within Change: Britishness in a New World Prelude 8: 'A Bridge Between': The BBC's Colonial Service 9: Modern Raleighs in a New Elizabethan Age 10: Business as Usual: Caribbean Britishness in West Indian Schools Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Rush does an admirable job of unpacking the elements that formed and strengthened the bonds between Britain and its colonies in the Caribbean... Rush shows us what imperial identity and culture came to mean for West Indians as they re-fashioned it in their daily lives and seized the opportunities open to them...illuminating Elizabeth Williams, Reviews in History

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Anne Spry Rush's research interests include the nature of identity and culture in the modern British Empire, with an emphasis on imperial identity in the twentieth-century Caribbean and British Isles. She teaches history at the University of Maryland.

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