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6 Society, Mass Warfare, and Gender in Europe during and after the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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Imperial Warfare and Changing Masculinities Imperial Warfare and Changing Masculinities
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Imperialists as Bearers of Civilization Imperialists as Bearers of Civilization
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The Right to Rule The Right to Rule
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Honorable Warfare and Narratives of Nation and Empire Honorable Warfare and Narratives of Nation and Empire
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23 Gender, Peace, and the New Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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13 The “White Man,” Race, and Imperial War during the Long Nineteenth Century
Get accessMarilyn Lake is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely on gender, war, empire, nationalism, feminism, and race. Her publications include Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism (1999); Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, edited with Ann Curthoys (2005); Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century, edited with Joy Damousi (2005); and most recently Drawing the Global Color Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (2008), coauthored with Henry Reynolds; What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarization of Australian History (2010); and Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (2019).
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
This chapter explores the transnational formation of the gendered and racialized figure of the “white man” in the constitutive relations of colonial conquest and imperial rule across the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The self-styled bearer of a “civilizing mission” to indigenous peoples, the white man became a perpetrator of violence and atrocity as imperial rule and colonial settlement encountered continuing resistance and guerrilla warfare. In the process, the older ideal of moral manliness gave way to a more modern conception of masculinity characterized by toughness, aggression, and a capacity to use firearms to “pacify the natives.” Defined by power, even as he was haunted by his vulnerability, the white man engaged in systematic denial and disavowal, evasion, and euphemism and narratives of nation-building that justified his right to rule.
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