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By David C. Atkinson

ISBN-10: 1469630265

ISBN-13: 9781469630267

ISBN-10: 1469630273

ISBN-13: 9781469630274

From 1896 to 1924, prompted via fears of an impossible to resist wave of Asian migration and the prospect that whites could be ousted from their place of world domination, British colonists and white americans instituted stringent legislative controls on chinese language, jap, and South Asian immigration. Historians of those efforts generally tension similarity and collaboration among those routine, yet during this compelling research, David C. Atkinson highlights the variations in those campaigns and argues that the most issue unifying those differently specific drives was once the consistent tensions they prompted. Drawing on documentary facts from the us, nice Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson strains how those exclusionary regimes drew concept from related racial, fiscal, and strategic anxieties, yet however built idiosyncratically within the first many years of the 20th century.

Arguing that the so-called white man's burden used to be frequently white supremacy itself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion--meant to foster white racial, political, and financial supremacy--only infected risky tensions that threatened to undermine the British Empire, American international family members, and the hot framework of foreign cooperation that the 1st global War.

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