Elizabeth Buettner
Biographic Data
| ID | 299908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Buettner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Buettner |
| SIGNATURE | BUETTNER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1800-Present
Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme …
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary …
Migrations et tournant global de l’histoire européenne
Migrations et tournant global de l’histoire européenne Le tournant global est au cœur de l’étude des nombreuses histoires migratoires de l’Europe – qu’il s’agisse de migrations extra-, intra- ou infra-européennes – et inclut les espaces transatlantiques, impériaux et post-impériaux ainsi que d’autres arènes mondiales. Bénéficiant d’un grand nombre de travaux novateurs souvent centrés sur des histoires au niveau macro, cet article prône un cadrage…
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
Europeanising Migration in Multicultural Spain and Portugal During and After the Decolonisation Era
Post-1945 Spanish and Portuguese emigration and immigration histories encapsulate the Iberian region's long-standing interconnectedness with the wider world (particularly Latin America and Africa) and other parts of Europe alike. Portugal and Spain have both been part of multiple migration systems as important sending countries that ultimately experienced an international migration turnaround owing to their transition to democracy, decolonisation…
Postcolonial Migrations to Europe
The global dynamics of decolonization set in train a whole matrix of mobility that in turn transformed European social and political trajectories. Ostensibly a moment in which empire vanished, metropole and colony in fact switched roles—the massive inward migration of formerly colonized peoples now made the major cities of Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands much more ethnically diverse. This chapter examines the debates these…
Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western …
This is Staffordshire not Alabama’: Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain
In the 1964 general election, the English town of Smethwick outside Birmingham became infamous for the unprecedented way in which issues of immigration, race and racism entered British national politics. Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths captured the Smethwick seat in Parliament from long-standing Labour MP Patrick Gordon Walker, aided by the slogan ‘If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour’—a watershed episode soon overshadowe…
La famille britannique entre l'Inde et le Canada. Empire, classe sociale et voyage à la fin du XIX e siècle
Cet article aborde les expériences et les significations pour les enfants britanniques des voyages et communications dans l’empire par opposition à la vie en métropole, dans la seconde moitié du xix e siècle. Il examine deux catégories d’enfants aux trajectoires impériales différentes, l’une se déployant de l’Inde à la Grande-Bretagne, l’autre de la métropole vers le Canada. Pour les rejetons des familles britanniques liées au Raj, la résidence d…
‘We Don't Grow Coffee and Bananas in Clapham Junction You Know!’
Entries
Going for an Indian: South Asian Restaurants and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Britain
Cemeteries, Public Memory and Raj Nostalgia in Postcolonial Britain and India
This article examines how, and why, decaying colonial-era European graveyards in India became targeted for conservation starting in the 1970s by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Cemeteries serve as a barometer signaling how both ex-colonizers and the ex-colonized have assessed colonial spaces, artifacts, and empire more generally after decolonization. Alongside working to preserve graveyards and record tombstone inscr…
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations. Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long p…
The Parting Years: A British Family and the end of Empire, and: Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific (review)
Reviewed by: The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire., and: Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific. Elizabeth Buettner The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire. By Sheila Bevan. London and New York: The Radcliffe Press, 2001. Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific. By Andrew Stuart. London and New …
Haggis in the Raj: Private and Public Celebrations of Scottishness in Late Imperial India
Women in modern india (the new cambridge history of India, Vol. IV, no. 2)
Problematic spaces, problematic races: Defining 'Europeans' in late colonial India
This article considers how women and men acquired ‘European’ status in gender-specific ways in colonial India between the late nineteenth century and independence in 1947. Being considered ‘European’ in this setting required far more than ancestry and biological attributes, and depended heavily on class, culture, occupation and ongoing imperial border crossings that allowed individuals to maintain direct contact with Britain. Those born in India …
Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling . Pam Gilbert , Sandra Taylor Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties . Wini Breines Young, Female, and Black . Heid…
Going for an Indian: South Asian Restaurants and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Britain
Cemeteries, Public Memory and Raj Nostalgia in Postcolonial Britain and India
This article examines how, and why, decaying colonial-era European graveyards in India became targeted for conservation starting in the 1970s by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Cemeteries serve as a barometer signaling how both ex-colonizers and the ex-colonized have assessed colonial spaces, artifacts, and empire more generally after decolonization. Alongside working to preserve graveyards and record tombstone inscr…
This is Staffordshire not Alabama’: Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain
In the 1964 general election, the English town of Smethwick outside Birmingham became infamous for the unprecedented way in which issues of immigration, race and racism entered British national politics. Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths captured the Smethwick seat in Parliament from long-standing Labour MP Patrick Gordon Walker, aided by the slogan ‘If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour’—a watershed episode soon overshadowe…
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary …
Haggis in the Raj: Private and Public Celebrations of Scottishness in Late Imperial India
Problematic spaces, problematic races: Defining 'Europeans' in late colonial India
This article considers how women and men acquired ‘European’ status in gender-specific ways in colonial India between the late nineteenth century and independence in 1947. Being considered ‘European’ in this setting required far more than ancestry and biological attributes, and depended heavily on class, culture, occupation and ongoing imperial border crossings that allowed individuals to maintain direct contact with Britain. Those born in India …
Europeanising Migration in Multicultural Spain and Portugal During and After the Decolonisation Era
Post-1945 Spanish and Portuguese emigration and immigration histories encapsulate the Iberian region's long-standing interconnectedness with the wider world (particularly Latin America and Africa) and other parts of Europe alike. Portugal and Spain have both been part of multiple migration systems as important sending countries that ultimately experienced an international migration turnaround owing to their transition to democracy, decolonisation…
Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling . Pam Gilbert , Sandra Taylor Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties . Wini Breines Young, Female, and Black . Heid…
Women in modern india (the new cambridge history of India, Vol. IV, no. 2)
Problematic spaces, problematic races: Defining 'Europeans' in late colonial India
This article considers how women and men acquired ‘European’ status in gender-specific ways in colonial India between the late nineteenth century and independence in 1947. Being considered ‘European’ in this setting required far more than ancestry and biological attributes, and depended heavily on class, culture, occupation and ongoing imperial border crossings that allowed individuals to maintain direct contact with Britain. Those born in India …
The Parting Years: A British Family and the end of Empire, and: Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific (review)
Reviewed by: The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire., and: Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific. Elizabeth Buettner The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire. By Sheila Bevan. London and New York: The Radcliffe Press, 2001. Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific. By Andrew Stuart. London and New …
Haggis in the Raj: Private and Public Celebrations of Scottishness in Late Imperial India
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations. Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long p…
Cemeteries, Public Memory and Raj Nostalgia in Postcolonial Britain and India
This article examines how, and why, decaying colonial-era European graveyards in India became targeted for conservation starting in the 1970s by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Cemeteries serve as a barometer signaling how both ex-colonizers and the ex-colonized have assessed colonial spaces, artifacts, and empire more generally after decolonization. Alongside working to preserve graveyards and record tombstone inscr…
Going for an Indian: South Asian Restaurants and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Britain
Entries
‘We Don't Grow Coffee and Bananas in Clapham Junction You Know!’
La famille britannique entre l'Inde et le Canada. Empire, classe sociale et voyage à la fin du XIX e siècle
Cet article aborde les expériences et les significations pour les enfants britanniques des voyages et communications dans l’empire par opposition à la vie en métropole, dans la seconde moitié du xix e siècle. Il examine deux catégories d’enfants aux trajectoires impériales différentes, l’une se déployant de l’Inde à la Grande-Bretagne, l’autre de la métropole vers le Canada. Pour les rejetons des familles britanniques liées au Raj, la résidence d…
This is Staffordshire not Alabama’: Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain
In the 1964 general election, the English town of Smethwick outside Birmingham became infamous for the unprecedented way in which issues of immigration, race and racism entered British national politics. Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths captured the Smethwick seat in Parliament from long-standing Labour MP Patrick Gordon Walker, aided by the slogan ‘If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour’—a watershed episode soon overshadowe…
Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western …
Postcolonial Migrations to Europe
The global dynamics of decolonization set in train a whole matrix of mobility that in turn transformed European social and political trajectories. Ostensibly a moment in which empire vanished, metropole and colony in fact switched roles—the massive inward migration of formerly colonized peoples now made the major cities of Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands much more ethnically diverse. This chapter examines the debates these…
Europeanising Migration in Multicultural Spain and Portugal During and After the Decolonisation Era
Post-1945 Spanish and Portuguese emigration and immigration histories encapsulate the Iberian region's long-standing interconnectedness with the wider world (particularly Latin America and Africa) and other parts of Europe alike. Portugal and Spain have both been part of multiple migration systems as important sending countries that ultimately experienced an international migration turnaround owing to their transition to democracy, decolonisation…
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary …
Migrations et tournant global de l’histoire européenne
Migrations et tournant global de l’histoire européenne Le tournant global est au cœur de l’étude des nombreuses histoires migratoires de l’Europe – qu’il s’agisse de migrations extra-, intra- ou infra-européennes – et inclut les espaces transatlantiques, impériaux et post-impériaux ainsi que d’autres arènes mondiales. Bénéficiant d’un grand nombre de travaux novateurs souvent centrés sur des histoires au niveau macro, cet article prône un cadrage…
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1800-Present
Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme …
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Empire (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works)