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Subject(s)

• White people—Race identity—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• White people—Race identity—Great Britain—Colonies—History—19th century [Browse]
• Ethnicity—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Ethnicity—Great Britain—Colonies—History—19th century [Browse]
• Sex role—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Sex role—Great Britain—Colonies—History—19th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies—Race relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-205) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : postcolonial, non-Victorian nonwhite
• Pt. I. In the metropole
• 1. White masculinity : playing at rugby and the Sepoy mutiny
• 2. The whiteness of women : in theory and under lock and key
• 3. Victoria's secret : the history of white sexuality
• Pt. II. In the south
• 4. White water : race and oceans down under
• 5. Mourning and melancholia : the wages of whiteness
• 6. Dermographia : how the Irish became white in India
• Epilogue : Europe as an other.

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ISBN

• 9780816647798 (acid-free paper)
• 0816647798 (acid-free paper)
• 9780816647804 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0816647801 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2007018904

OCLC

124036332

Other standard number

• 40014931566

RCP

C - S

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