Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging

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This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb and Thomas Sedgwick, this book offers a comparative history of how the idea of imperial citizenship took hold in early twentieth-century Britain, and how it helped foster the articulation of a broader British world.  Contents Acknowledgements General Editor’s Introduction List of Abbreviations 1 Imperial citizenship Part I. Theories of imperial citizenship 2 Lionel Curtis: imperial citizenship as a prelude to world government 3 John Buchan, romantic imperialism, and the question of who belongs 4 The imperial garden: Arnold White and the parochial view of imperial citizenship Part II. Experiments in imperial citizenship 5 Richard Jebb, intra-imperial immigration, and the practical problems of imperial citizenship 6 ‘Practical imperialism’: Thomas Sedgwick and imperial emigration 7 The failure of imperial citizenship Appendices Bibliography Index