An Unknown People’
Reconstructing British South African Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11944591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Lambert (North-West State Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 599-617 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086530903327101 |
| OpenAlex | W2006855960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article is part of a wider project, the writing of a biography of South Africans of British origin or descent. As a group, they have been neglected in South African historiography and the article traces the evolution of their identity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, placing it in the context of studies both in South Africa and elsewhere in the Anglophone world on Britishness and also of studies on South Africanism. While acknowledging that there were a variety of British identities in South Africa, the article distinguishes the emergence of a hegemonic identity and teases out characteristics common to most of the group. The article concludes with an examination of how British, or, as they became known in the twentieth century, English-speaking South Africans, reacted to the changes taking place in the country since first 1948, and then 1994
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biography · Britishness · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Hegemony · Historiography · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · South African History and Culture
The Falklands War
Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
Saviour’ of the Empire
From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’
Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
Making whiteness work in South Africa
War of the British Worlds
The South African Lady's Pictorial and Home Journal as a subtle agent of change for British South African women's view of race relations in southern Africa
Decolonization, Environmentalism and Nationalism in Australia and South Africa
From boys to gentlemen
Conclusion
The English national character
Media and the British Empire
Liberals against Apartheid
‘Munition Factories … Turning Out a Constant Supply of Living Material’
Britishness in South Africa
The crown, empire loyalism and the assimilation of non-British white subjects in the British world
Cape Town Highlanders, Transvaal Scottish
Their Finest Hour?' English-speaking South Africans and World War II
South African British? Or Dominion South Africans? The Evolution of an Identity in the 1910s and 1920s
Scientism, Social Research and the Limits of ‘South Africanism’
The Languages of Loyalism in Southern Africa, c. 1870-1939
The Scots in South Africa
Imagined communities
Are there South Africans
They Were South Africans
How British was the British World? The Case of South Africa
The Heretic. A Study of the Life of John William Colenso 1814-1883
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of 'South Africanism', 1902-101
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |