@article{824139,
      recid = {824139},
      author = {Behm, Amanda,},
      title = {Imperial history and the global politics of exclusion :  Britain, 1880-1940 /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in  Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates  how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler  colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a  precarious framework for decolonization. History was  politics in late-nineteenth-century Britain. But the means  by which influential thinkers sought to steer democracy and  state development also consigned vast populations to the  margins of imperial debate and policy. From the 1880s  onward, politicians, intellectuals, and journalists erected  a school of thought based on exclusion and deferral that  segregated past and future, backwardness and civilization,  validating racial discrimination in empire all while  disavowing racism. These efforts, however, engendered  powerful anticolonial backlash and cast a long shadow over  the closing decades of imperial rule. Bringing to life the  forgotten struggles which have, in effect, defined our  times, Imperial History and the Global Politics of  Exclusion is an important reinterpretation of the  intellectual history of the British Empire.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/824139},
}