Book contents
- Untied Kingdom
- Untied Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Prologue
- 1 Offshore Formations: The Unbearable Bandwidth of Being British
- 2 The Limits of Location: Greater Britain
- 3 ‘British with a Small “b”’: The Impress of Internationalism
- Part II Registers
- Part III Repercussions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Limits of Location: Greater Britain
from Part I - Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Untied Kingdom
- Untied Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Prologue
- 1 Offshore Formations: The Unbearable Bandwidth of Being British
- 2 The Limits of Location: Greater Britain
- 3 ‘British with a Small “b”’: The Impress of Internationalism
- Part II Registers
- Part III Repercussions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter enlarges on the unique properites of Britishness as a global civic idea. It considers the meaning of ‘Greater Britain’ on the eve of the Great War, asking what kind of intercommunal network was enlivened by the conception of the British as a ‘world’ people. Contemporaries furnished a wide spectrum of answers, and it is by comparing the extremes of variation from Vancouver to Ulster to Punjab that the underlying dissonance between rival conceptions of Britishness emerge into view.
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- Untied KingdomA Global History of the End of Britain, pp. 46 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023