Book contents
- The Quest for Security
- The Quest for Security
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Federationism, Security, and the South African War
- 2 Lessons of South Africa: Security and Political Culture in the British World, 1902–1906
- 3 Security, Race, and Dominion Status, 1907–1909
- 4 The Collapse of Consensus and Control, 1910–1914
- 5 Race, Conscription, and the Meaning of Sovereignty in War
- 6 The Sharp Sickle: New Realities of Sovereignty in the British Empire, 1918–1926
- Epilogue: The Statute of Westminster – A Once and Future Sovereignty
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Colonial Federationism, Security, and the South African War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2019
- The Quest for Security
- The Quest for Security
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Federationism, Security, and the South African War
- 2 Lessons of South Africa: Security and Political Culture in the British World, 1902–1906
- 3 Security, Race, and Dominion Status, 1907–1909
- 4 The Collapse of Consensus and Control, 1910–1914
- 5 Race, Conscription, and the Meaning of Sovereignty in War
- 6 The Sharp Sickle: New Realities of Sovereignty in the British Empire, 1918–1926
- Epilogue: The Statute of Westminster – A Once and Future Sovereignty
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 discusses attempts to coordinate colonial military resources for the South African War, and how the war led many to doubt whether the British Empire could be effectively defended, or its people and resources effectively coordinated in moments of crisis. It then shows how these doubts structured ongoing state-building projects in British colonies, specifically the federation of Australian colonies into one Commonwealth in 1901 and the abortive attempt to federate New Zealand with Fiji. The chapter ends by demonstrating that this fashion for large federal projects was an attempt to solve imperial dilemmas of security and population control, and was freighted by racial politics.
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- The Quest for SecuritySovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898–1931, pp. 20 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019