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The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century
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Reynolds, H, The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century, Re-Orienting Whiteness, Palgrave Macmillan, L Boucher, J Carey, and K Ellinghaus (ed), United States, pp. 73-82. ISBN 978-0-230-61885-5 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
I n 1902 James Bryce delivered the prestigious Romanes lecture in Oxford.
He was a man of many talents-historian, jurist, and politician; world
traveler and author of the magisterial study The American Commonwealth.
Bryce's lecture "The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of
Mankind" was inimitably global in its sweep and sober in its song. Bryce had,
for many years, been considering the social consequences of the revolution in
communications brought by the trains, steam ships, and the telegraph, and by
the contemporaneous expansion of the great European empires. The situation
was unprecedented. All parts of the world had been explored and all the races
of mankind were in contact. The early twentieth century stood "eminent and
peculiar in this" because it marked the completion of a process by which all the
races had been effected, and all the backward ones placed in a more or less complete
dependence on the more advanced. The new and radical closeness of
contact-"so much closer and more widespread than ever in the past"-had
created a unique situation. The, by now, inescapable contact between the races
had created a "crisis in the history of the world," which would "profoundly
effect the destiny of mankind."
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | miscegenation, politics, Twentieth Century |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Historical Studies not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Understanding Past Societies |
| Objective Field: | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Reynolds, H (Professor Henry Reynolds) |
| ID Code: | 121072 |
| Year Published: | 2009 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2017-09-08 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-09-08 |
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