| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Barbara Bush. Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919–1945. New York: Routledge. 1999. Pp. xviii, 394. Cloth $75.00, paper $24.99.

Barbara Bush's book examines the many strains of thought and action regarding colonialism and white supremacy in Britain and parts of Britain's empire in Africa, from the end of World War I to the end of World War II. After a general assessment of the state of the African empire after the Great War, she provides three substantial chapters on West Africa (mostly Nigeria and Gold Coast/Ghana), three more on South Africa, and three on Britain itself ("into the heart of empire"). She therefore takes on large chunks of territory indeed, both literally and in subject matter. In her terms, colonial and white supremacist "dreams of power" evoked countervailing "dreams of freedom"; there ensued an ongoing dialectic between the two, with reformulations of one leading to reconfigurations in the other. In itself this is obvious enough; as Bush acknowledges disarmingly, she "make[s] no claims to any path-breaking approaches" (p. xii). Still, the outlines of this dynamic are useful as historical survey; I can imagine assigning chapters of this book to undergraduates, for instance. . . .

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