Drawing The Global Colour Line
White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality
$49.49
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2008
Summary
At last a history of Australia in its dynamic global context. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in response to the mobilisation and mobility of colonial and coloured peoples around the world, self-styled ‘white men’s countries’ in South Africa, North America and Australasia worked in solidarity to exclude those peoples they defined as not-white–including Africans, Chinese, Indians, Japanese and Pacific Islanders. Their policies provoked in turn a long international struggl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522854787 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522854788 |
| Author: | Henry Reynolds, Marilyn Lake |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 512g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 156mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds holds a Personal Chair in History and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. His previous publications include The Other Side of the Frontier (1981), Why Weren’t We Told? (2000) and The Law of the Land (2003).
Marilyn Lake holds a Personal Chair in the School of Historical and European Studies at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. Her publications include Getting Equal- The History of Australian Feminism (1999), Faith- Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist (2002) and, as co-editor, Connected Worlds- History in Transnational Perspective (with Ann Curthoys, 2006).
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