undersung aspect of brexiteers' colonostolgia is the ongoing assumption that the US is destined to be its ethnocultural backup rather than the european countries who contributed so much of its immigrant populationhttps://on.ft.com/35iZSFb
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Replying to @zeithistoriker @cszabla
Has anyone written about the long history of these delusions, going back to imperial trading bloc ideas of Joseph Chamberlain, Beverbrook etc.?
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the man you’re looking for is
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Thanks - here are a few bits and pieces, by me and others A short essay outlining the historyhttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/anglosphere-old-dream-brexit-role-in-the-world …
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This is a very good edited collection on the Anglosphere, including a fair amount on its historyhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-anglosphere-9780197266618#.X1nUdA1WEPw.twitter …
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This book, by
@srdjanvucetic, makes the case for the Anglosphere as a racialized identity, with roots in the late c19https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=18744#.X1nU-0biLFQ.twitter …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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This book, by
@michaelkenny_ and@IPR_NickP, is the best account of the shifting meanings of the Anglosphere in British politics, back to the c.19 https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Shadows+of+Empire%3A+The+Anglosphere+in+British+Politics-p-9781509516605 …1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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Finally, a piece that I wrote with
@srdjanvucetic on "CANZUK," one of the latest offshoots of the old idea (imperial federation, in this case):https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1369148118819070?journalCode=bpia#articleShareContainer …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
Thanks -- all this looks right down my alley. Will check out.
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