Lnd. : Charles Scrinber's Sons, 1940. — 391 p. The New Era. The Empire and French Revolution. The Expanding Empire. The Napoleonic Struggle. After Napoleon. The Revolution in Ideas. The Breath of New Life. Early Victorian. The Turn of the Century. New Powers and New Forces. The New Imperialism. The Reaction from Imperialism. The Edwardian Period. The World War and After.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. — 275 p. In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater of the Konbaung Empire into the world’s largest exporter of rice. This seminal and far-reaching work focuses on two major aspects of that...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 278 p. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theater and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550-1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theater. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents,...
Continuum, 2011. — 208 p. This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. The book focuses on a tumultuous period of resistance against the backdrop...
Metadata n/a. — 123 p. "The Greatest Empire the World has ever known upon which the sun never set". The origins of the British Empire can be seen as going back to the Middle Ages with the beginning of the conquest of Ireland (1169) and conquest of much of France during the Hundred Years' War. However, the modern British Empire can be considered having started in 1497 with John...
UBC Press, 2017. — 297 p. Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts. Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged as a response to modern concerns about gender, race, class, and social instability. In this book, Kristine Alexander...
Routledge, 2011. — 255 p. Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain’s engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 232 p. Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 220 p. This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India, considers the relationship between India and its penal settlements in Southeast...
Manchester University Press, 1992. — 239 p. General editor's introduction. An orderly retreat? Policing the end of empire. Policing insurgency in Ireland, 1914–1923. Police power and the demise of British rule in India, 1930–1947. Communal conflict and insurrection in Palestine, 1936–1948. Political intelligence and policing in Ghana in the late 1940s and 1950s. Policing during...
Manchester University Press, 1991. — 259 p. General editor's introduction. Consent, coercion and colonial control: policing the empire, 1830–1940. Policing the colonies of settlement, 1830-1900. The ‘Irish model’ and the empire: a case for reassessment. The varieties of policing: colonial Queensland, 1860–1900. The policing of colonial New Zealand: from informal to formal...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 344 p. By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and...
Cambridge University Press, 1984. — 394 р. Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course, it has done nothing of the kind, but it does enable the historian today to approach that past in a more critical spirit and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 379 p. Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it. The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 258 p.
David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched,...
Ashgate, 2008. — 238 p. "Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition" addresses the global, international and imperial characteristics of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. This collection of essays considers how and why the Exhibition was significant both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the...
The History Press, 2015. — 226 p. The compelling story of the special relationship between Churchill and the people of Malta Sir Winston Churchill visited the island of Malta on six occasions. He first sailed in to the Grand Harbour of Valletta on the evening of October 2, 1907 when at the age of 33 he was Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office. His last visit took...
Routledge, 2004. — 280 p. A major reassessment of a key aspect of British strategy and defence policy in the first half of the twentieth century. The main contribution of this new study is an investigation of the role of Malta in British military strategy, as planned and as it actually developed, in the period between the mid 1920s and the end of the war in North Africa in May...
Routledge, 2004. — 280 p. A major reassessment of a key aspect of British strategy and defence policy in the first half of the twentieth century. The main contribution of this new study is an investigation of the role of Malta in British military strategy, as planned and as it actually developed, in the period between the mid 1920s and the end of the war in North Africa in May...
SUNY Press, 1996. — 316 p. Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from antiquity through colonialism to the modern period. The focus...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 496 p. From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland....
Routledge, 1996. — 264 p. Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 302 p. This book is an original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab Dependencies, based on a combination of first hand experience and extensive research. Glen Balfour-Paul opens by outlining Britain's position in the Middle East at the end of the Second World War. He then presents in three separate chapters a...
UBC Press, 2014. — 377 p. Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories,...
New York University Press, 2012. — 210 p. A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional ties to a common identity. Both men and women can respond to nationalistic calls to fight that portray muscular warriors defending their nation against an easily recognizable...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 352 p. Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era--a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the ship's launch failed when it proved too large to exit from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 285 p. This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-1610), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player. Barbour s volume makes available essential documentation for the history of the East India Company in the critical opening years of...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 352 p. The 'Indian Room' label from Osterley's bell-pull system illustrates the economic and cultural aspects of the relationship between country houses and the British Empire. This book is a study of that relationship, of the ways in which country houses like Osterley served as venues for the expression of personal and national imperial...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2017. — 206 p. In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to...
Routledge, 2024. — 228 p. British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontier- making. It is in this regard that the book examines what it culturally meant to be a hunter, peasant or rebel between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the British Assam frontier. The...
Routledge, 2024. — 228 p. British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontier- making. It is in this regard that the book examines what it culturally meant to be a hunter, peasant or rebel between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the British Assam frontier. The...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 319 p. The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination...
SAGE Publications, 2014. — 224 p. The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography....
SAGE Publications, 2014. — 248 p. The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography....
SAGE Publications, 2017. — 488 p. The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography. Documents of the...
Penguin Group, 2008. — 704 p.
This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally...
Penguin Group, 2008. — 704 p.
This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 512 p. Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in hard covers, Dr Bayly's authoritative study traces the evolution of North Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of mature Victorian empire following the 'mutiny' of 1857. The first section of the book looks at the response of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 352 p. Taming the Imperial Imagination marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations, and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how, throughout the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through...
Routledge, 2018. — 205 p. Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with...
London.: Routledge, 2005. - 232 p. Product Description Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 308 p. Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, examining British attempts to manage the tribes from 1849 until Pakistan's declaration of independence in 1947. He explores British attempts to divide the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 344 p. 19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 256 p. The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a...
Springer, 2021. — 374 p. This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India. It analyses colonial literature, as well as cultural and relational issues of pre-literate communities. It interrogates disciplinary epistemology through multidisciplinary engagement. It presents the temporal and spatial dimensions of tribal studies. The chapters critically...
Liverpool University Press, 2021. — 336 p. In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played by working people, their experiences, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 592 p. Why does so much of the world speak English? This book gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a ‘Settler Revolution’ that took place from the early 19th century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand,...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 465 p. Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Anglo-world. Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers invested the Anglo-Saxons...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 335 p. During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the...
The Great Courses, 2017. — 233 p. Shaped by its richly diverse cultural heritage and by immensely significant historical events, the Indian subcontinent holds a unique place in world civilization. Perhaps no era is more relevant to our understanding of how present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh came to be than the nearly two centuries of British rule, beginning in 1757,...
Routledge, 2018. — 220 p. In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule....
Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2010. — 179 p. This book seeks to outline Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s approach to the Muslim cause in British India. Hailed by his supporters – mainly Muslim nationalists in South Asia – as a great leader, and criticized scathingly by his opponents and dubbed as a ‘toady’ or ‘sycophant’ of the British, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan remains, hitherto, a very...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 214 p. Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, revealing the possibilities of an...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 235 p. The British Army suffered one of its greatest crises when in December 1899 the Boer irregulars inflicted three reverses in South Africa in 'Black Week'. A nation grown accustomed to success was stunned. Part of the answer was a very British blend of patriotism and pragmatism. For the first time civilian volunteers and part-time soldiers were...
University of California Press, 2010. — 375 p.
During the decades of empire (1870-1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among "savage" people for their nation's...
HarperLuxe, 2021. — 640 p. Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted - and successful - pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed "El Draque" by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged...
HarperLuxe, 2021. — 640 p. Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted - and successful - pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed "El Draque" by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged...
Routledge, 2018. — 230 p. The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually nothing, is one of the most important themes in...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 344 p. This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 243 p. Princely states were semi-autonomous territories that made up roughly 40 per cent of South Asia under British rule. This engaging study looks at educational reform in the context of debates on modernity and anti-colonial nationalism in the two leading progressive princely states in twentieth-century India, Baroda and Mysore. Sovereign...
Bloomsbury, 2020. — 544 p. An unrivaled and comprehensive look at the 200-year story of Swire, a highly diversified, global group of companies including Cathay Pacific, with a rich and colorful history. The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on the textile trade. John Swire's sons, John...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 352 p. The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions and pressures. As a result they often...
London: Routledge, 2007. - 240 p. This new volume examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building. Jeremy Black, a leading expert on British foreign policy, draws on the wide range of archival material, as well as other sources, in order to ask how far, and through what processes and to what ends,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 330 p. From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 330 p. From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 330 p. From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy...
Encounter Books, 2019. — 216 p. Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in...
Ashgate, 2015. — 259 p. What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire, but also a perspective from which...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences...
Manchester University Press, 1990. — 301 p. General introduction. Introduction: a survey of the imperial territory and the beginnings of political empire. The ordered empire of Charles I, 1625-1642. The English revolution and the empire, 1642–1660. ‘A time of soe great uncertainties’: the colonies during the interregnum, 1642-1660. The Restoration in England, 1660-1667. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 270 p. British India, as a result of history, geopolitics and its unique status within the Empire, controlled a chain of overseas agencies that stretched from southern Persia to eastern Africa. This book examines how, as the relative importance of British interests steadily eclipsed those of India throughout the region, Indian sub-imperial impulses...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 375 p. On 14 July 2013, India closed down its telegraph service, drawing the curtain over an important chapter in its history of telecommunications. Introduced during the colonial period, the telegraph network was opened for public use on 1 February 1855; both the beginning and the end of the service were marked by striking scenes of people...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 565 p. In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of political movements such as the Imperial Federation League, the Round Table and the Federal Union. Indeed, it was regarded as the solution...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 311 p. This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information. It focuses on heterogeneous voices on the periphery, who interacted with the indigenous population to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 267 p. This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 220 p. Revenue and Reform offers a reappraisal of British imperial politics in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. It is traditional to regard the 1760s as a time when British politicians were preoccupied with the crises that eventually led to the outbreak of the American War of Independence. In this book, however, it is the Indian...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 320 p. The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company’s acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the Company’s administrative and financial records, the book offers a...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 484 p. This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, of metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic...
Oxford: Clarendon press, 1921. — 233 p. The purpose of this book is to give an account of the principal movements in prices and rates of wages in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the War to the summer of 1920. Neither prices nor wages were left to the unfettered play of supply and demand, and their changes are closely related to changes in administration and control ;...
Manchester University Press, 1991. — 257 p. General editor's introduction. British heroism and the structure of melodrama. Staging the Irishman. Melodrama, realism and empire on the British stage. Staging British India. Mock blacks and racial mockery: the ‘nigger’ minstrel and British imperialism.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2008. — 816 p. No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Filled with particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, this work presents the story of the decline and eclipse of the...
Taylor & Francis, 2005. — 238 p. — ISBN 0-203-00911-8. This collection of essays is based upon the assumption that the British Empire was held together not merely by ties of trade and defence, but by a shared sense of British identity that linked British communities around the globe. Focusing on the themes of migration, identity and the media, this book is an exploration of...
London: Ridway and Sons, 1848. — 1250 p. As stated in an advertisement in the mid-1830s announcing the reprinting for public sale of the earlier volumes: “This Publication is intended to comprise the principle Documents which have been made public, relating to the Political and Commercial Affairs of Nations, and to their Relations with each other, from the termination of the War...
London: Ridway and Sons, 1849. — 987 p. As stated in an advertisement in the mid-1830s announcing the reprinting for public sale of the earlier volumes: “This Publication is intended to comprise the principle Documents which have been made public, relating to the Political and Commercial Affairs of Nations, and to their Relations with each other, from the termination of the War in...
The Overlook Press, 2017. — 336 p. The true account of the British Royal Navy’s crusade to put an end to the African slave trade once and for all! Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s, even after the Civil War ended it in the United States. What further undermined the British Empire...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 800 p. The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British...
Penguin, 2015. — 432 p. Cecil John Rhodes made a fortune from diamonds and gold, became prime minister of the Cape, and had a country named after him, but his ambitions were far greater than that. When he was still in his twenties, after a meeting with General Gordon of Khartoum, Rhodes set up a Secret Society with the aim of establishing a new world order. The society,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 288 p. Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another....
Sapere Books, 2020. — 276 p. George Bruce’s remarkable book uncovers the history of the two Anglo-Sikh Wars that erupted in India in the 1840s. Perfect for fans of William Dalrymple, Lawrence James and Richard Holmes. By the end of the nineteenth century India was described as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, but how did such a small island come to dominate one of...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 329 p. This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 228 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
In this book, Martin Bunton focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration - a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. His meticulous research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and Cyprus...
McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 320 p. The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America Was classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism? Here's the story of how almost every well-known buccaneer of the “Golden Age of Piracy” enjoyed active sponsorship from England's governors in the American colonies- setting a pattern of official...
Eland Publishing Ltd., 2017. — 352 p. Mission Impossible – the Central Asian city of Khiva, closed to Europeans by the Russians and a possible springboard for an invasion of India. The man to undertake it – Captain Fred Burnaby, six foot four in his socks, a brilliant horseman, a crack shot and strong as an ox, with eight languages under his belt. In the winter of 1875, braving...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 360 p. As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out...
Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1965. — 950 р.
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Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 184 p. An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign. This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria's empire,...
Casemate, 2007. — 256 p. Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi-the "Expected One"-who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan. Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid...
Routledge, 1997. — 325 p. Taking colonial policy towards West Africa as a case study, Butler shows that, during the 1940s, the Colonial Office evolved a policy of encouraging colonial industry as part of a broad programme of development intended to prepare colonies for independence.
Createspace Independent Publishers, 2013. — 334 p. Anyone with even a passing interest in conspiracy has heard claims that a powerful elite controls both the economies and the politics of the West. Just as surely, almost everyone who has heard these claims has ignored them-the notion of a "secret hand" in world affairs is just too fantastic to believe. Yet, in 2008, the world...
3rd. Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 794 p. — ISBN: 978-1-315-67779-8. Part One : Introduction, 1688—1914. Part Two : The gentlemanly order, 1850—1914. Part Three : The wider world, 1815—1914. Part Four : Redividing the world. Part Five : The empire in the twentieth century. Part Six : The gentlemanly order, 1914—1939. Part Seven : The wider world, 1914—49. Part Eight : Losing an...
Dutton Books, 1981. — 916 p. A new edition, previously published in 1981 by Cape, this is the story of the early phases of English and British expansion throughout the world. Calder interweaves English, Irish, Scottish and colonial events into a single pattern. He concerns himself with social and intellectual history, as well as with political and economic developments.
Penguin Books, 2002. — 338 p. With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and "upon which the sun never set" finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we understand the British Empire--its origins, nature, purpose, and effect on the world it ruled--is far from settled....
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 554 p. The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 270 p. Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British Caribbean by the early 1970s, this project situates the development of networks of communication, categories of identification, and Caribbean...
Michigan State University Press, 2017. — 262 p. John Askin, a Scots-Irish migrant to North America, built his fur trade between the years 1758 and 1781 in the Great Lakes region of North America. His experience serves as a vista from which to view important aspects of the British Empire in North America. The close interrelationship between trade and empire enabled Askin’s...
Routledge, 2012. — 344 p. This book explores the political relationship between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. Many Egyptians hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias. Traditional ways of governing, however, were not so easily...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 276 p. Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. It draws together empirically...
Boydell Press, 2014. — 234 p. This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by, bureaucracies and vested interests, such as ship-owners. It shows how these campaigns originated; how reformers, bureaucracies and vested interests interacted; and how far the campaigns succeeded. Among the many...
Basic Books, 2005. — 267 p. As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. The map...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 235 p. In 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understood as an attempt to return the territory's...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 259 p. Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 92 p. In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealand’s coast. Cook later asserted that the only major sources of timber and flax in the Pacific region were to be found...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 37 p. On the morning of June 22, 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush, a repurposed German troopship, drew up alongside the Tilbury docks, lowering its gangplanks onto the wide, cobbled quays. To the casual interest of the dockworkers, a small army of well-dressed, luggage laden blacks stepped onto the shores of England, looking around for the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 335 p. This book is a detailed historical study of agriculture and agrarian society in a major province of British India, the Bombay presidency. Its objective is to examine the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. Among the specific issues discussed by the author are the development of the British land...
Bloomsbury Academic India, 2021. — 435 p. In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever. With William Shakespeare's death, the heart of Albion starts throbbing with four centuries of an extraordinary Indian settlement that Arup K. Chatterjee christens as Typogravia. In five acts that follow,...
Routledge, 2017. — 368 p. The Ascent of John Company is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. The process of founding empires is rarely, if ever, edifying. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality and violence, tempered to some extent by blatant lies, corruption, skullduggery and intrigue. Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the two names that come most...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 252 p. Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests – both internal and international – that influenced the actions...
University of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 320 p. It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. Preeti Chopra demonstrates how British Bombay was, surprisingly, a collaboration of the colonial government and the Indian and European mercantile and...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0300220464, 9780300220469. The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds. After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping...
Routledge, 2019. — 285 p. Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this book describes how British identity...
Routledge, 2021. — 228 p. Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, spatiality, and landscape as an entry point, The First World...
Routledge, 2019. — 275 p. This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns. An overall assessment of the Imperial heritage is attempted as a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 263 p. Blake, Nation and Empire challenges the orthodoxy of the politics of William Blake as exclusively radical, defined by his participation in the revolutionary ferment of the 1790s. It examines his work in the context of emergent discourses of nation and empire, and of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 329 p. The years 1650-1850 saw the creation of the United Kingdom and its emergence as a world power. According to much recent literature--especially Linda Colley's Britons--Protestantism was central to this process, giving the British a sense of uniqueness, unity and imperial destiny. This collection of essays examines and challenges this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1986. — 558 p. The Empire, its Nature and the Concept of Power. Strategic Policy and the Distribution of Forces, 1919–1929. Military Commitments in the 1919–29 Period: (1) Interventions. Military Commitments in the 1919–29 Period: (2) Security. Strategic Policy 1930–1939. Military Commitments in the 1930–39 Period: (1) Responses to Aggression. Military...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 320 p. In this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories...
Psychology Press, 1998. — 255 p. Britain emerged from World War II dependent economically and militarily upon the US. Egypt was the hub of Britain's imperial interests in the Middle East, but her inability to maintain a large garrison there was clear to the indigenous peoples. These essays track the decline of the British empire.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 231 p. The chapters in this book focus on the security of the British position in the Middle East between 1935 and 1939. In 1935 Britain was still able to rush reinforcements to the Middle East to forestall hostilities towards Egypt. However, by 1939 the international situation had changed irrevocably.
Anchor, 2007. — 464 p. In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan....
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 240 p. Jack Tar to Union Jack' examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical...
Manchester University Press, 1990. — 219 p. General introduction. Introduction: Empire migration and imperial harmony. A way out of our troubles’: the politics of Empire settlement, 1900–1922. The assisted emigration of British ex-servicemen to the dominions, 1914–1922. ‘The healthy, wholesome British domestic girl’: single female migration and the Empire Settlement Act,...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 288 p. Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 198 p. This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was an overtly outward-looking, global ideology...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. — 496 p. In the eighteenth century, sugar planters, merchants, aristocrats, politicians, and governments erected hundreds of commemorative monuments throughout the British Empire as expressions of social status, personal dynasties, territorial occupation, and imperial ambitions. In a culture transformed by the rising merchant class, these...
Routledge, 2012. — 288 p. Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two regional economies – one in an imperial country and the...
Stanford University Press, 2002. — 384 p. Imperial Fault Lines tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians in a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early nineteenth century. As British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab, their preconceived...
Routledge, 2008. — 336 p. Missions are an important topic in the history of modern Britain and of even wider importance in the modern history of Africa and many parts of Asia. Yet, despite the perennial subject matter, and the publication of a large number of studies of particular aspects of missions, there is no recent, balanced overview of the history of the missionary moment...
Liverpool University Press, 2013. — 208 p. Within postcolonial studies, Britain's long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Such postcolonial interpretations that focus on single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement,...
Regnery Publishing, 2011. — 384 p. The British Empire—the biggest empire in history—once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and...
London: Pluto Press, 2017. — 221 p. His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object.” This is the infamous Balfour Declaration, which began one hundred years of conflict with the Palestinian people. Penned in 1917 by British Foreign...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 304 р. How the idea of the Middle East emerged amid the contested waters and sands of the nineteenth-century Persian Gulf. The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-1635573-95-5. 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 576 p. In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army - what we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation. The East India Company's founding charter...
Penguin Group, 2004. — 583 p. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most excellent among Women'—the...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 542 p. This is the first comprehensive survey of the political and economic history of the Sudan from the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in 1898 until 1934. Based mainly on unpublished sources in the Sudan, Britain, and elsewhere, the book provides much information on important aspects of government and administration,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 316 p. This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 816 р.
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates...
Bloomsbury Press, 2012. — 1298 p. — ISBN: 978-1-6204-0039-5 Imagining Empire Making Contact Taking Possession Settling In Resorting to War Traffic and Trade Ruling Methods Acts of Rebellion Converts and Cultures Defending Empire Ending Empire The Last and the Largest Empire?
Boydell Press, 2016. — 284 p. Following Napoleon's defeat of Prussia in 1806 and his treaties with Russia and Persia in 1807, the French threat to Britain's position in India seemed real and strengthening. At the same time, Napoleon's economic warfare with Britain and the success of French privateers in disrupting British trade in the Indian Ocean were having a severe impact....
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 450 p. Traditional interpretations to the British Empire’s emerging success and expansion has long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that marked its initial entanglement with India. In September 1615, Thomas Roe - Britain’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire - made landfall on the western coast of India. Roe entered the court of Jahangir, "conqueror of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 484 p. Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914–1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were...
Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. — 400 p. Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The identities of Irish Catholics or Highland Scots who took part in...
Penguin, 2003. — 544 p. In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles. In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire.Combining formidable storytelling with ground-breaking research, Saul David narrates a...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 560 p. In "Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire" Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of...
Pluto Press, 2020. — 208 p. This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition that of the Round Table. The Round Table were a network of imperialists...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 195 p. Non-British migrants and their communities were an integral part of the multifaceted and multicultural nature of the British Empire. Their history, however, goes beyond a clearly delineated narrative of the Empire and includes transnational and truly global dimensions. German migrants and their transnational network creation within the...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 330 p. While the military features of historic forts usually receive the most attention from researchers, this volume focuses instead on the people who met and interacted in these sites. Contributors to British Forts and Their Communities look beyond the defensive architecture, physical landscapes, and armed conflicts to explore the complex...
New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2011. — 84 p. About the life of great freedom fighter Nana Saheb Peshwa. Preface. End of Peshwa Tradition. Period of Humiliation and Injustice. Plan of Struggle. Blazing Flame in the Whole Country. The Revolution Erupts. Ballad of War. Flagging Flame of Revolution. Last Days.
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 250 p. Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 282 p. Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits.
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 320 p. Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 320 p. Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 335 p. Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 372 p. In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political, social, and...
Routledge, 2019. — 187 p. This book analyzes the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period. Central to the volume is a comparative analysis of the communist parties of three British dominions, South Africa, Canada and Australia, demonstrating how...
World Scientific, 2017. — 208 p. This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States. In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities had been planted initially in the days of the East...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 255 p. In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials’ choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 437 p. — ISBN 978-1-78831-735-1. Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings to life the dynamic and the tension of the process of...
Greenwood Press, 1998. — 210 p. By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes. However, when dissatisfied French interests conspired to instigate a revolt, the resulting Pontiac Uprising would force the British to rethink colonial trade policy. The fur traders, who had...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 250 р. Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source...
New & rev. ed. — Lawrence and Wishart, 1957. — 539 p. This is a book about Britain’s present problems. It is also about the British Empire. There have been many books about post-war Britain. There have been many books about the modern development of the British Empire. But there has been no book about the crisis of Britain and the British Empire—taken as a unity. Yet it is...
Routledge, 2020. — 256 p. This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women’s engagement with Empire and British identity, and was inextricably linked with the...
Manticore Press, 2019. — 224 p. Winston Churchill is Britain’s national hero. His prep school headmaster was a sadist who almost ruined Churchill’s life. This first ever biography of Churchill’s headmaster pulls these myths apart. Churchill emerges as an intelligent and inspiring Narcissist who took Britain into a needless war, bankrupted it, lost its Empire and set off a...
University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 472 p. Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 480 p. After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision....
Free Press, 2002. — 304 p. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007, -267p.
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how...
Dublin: The O’Brien Press, 2024. — 835 p. — ISBN: 978–1–78849–546–2 The Bloody History of British Colonisation For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire's methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native Americans with smallpox...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 446 p. Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial...
Henry Holt, 2005. — 490 p.
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of...
Owl Books, 2005. — 490 p.
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of...
Knopf, 2022. — 896 p. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history,...
Knopf, 2022. — 896 p. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history,...
James Lorimer and Company, 2014. — 280 p. This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 269 p. The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ....
Routledge, 2020. — 507 p. This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 347 p. — (Oxford History of the British Empire). List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Norman Etherington. Prelude: The Christianizing of British America. Eliga H. Gould. An Overview, 1700–1914. Andrew Porter. Humanitarians and White Settlers in the Nineteenth Century. Alan Lester. Where the Missionary Frontier Ran Ahead of Empire. John...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 304 p. A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials. Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth‑century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 209 p. This book focuses on the ways in which the British settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa treated indigenous peoples in relation to political rights, commencing with the imperial policies of the 1830s and ending with the national political settlements in place by 1910. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...
Routledge, 2010. — 208 p. The three decades between 1865 and 1895 marked a particularly contentious period in the relationship between Britain and Russia in Central Asia, which more than once brought them to the verge of war. Moderates tried to settle the problem by the negotiation of ‘neutral zones’, or firm boundaries, but the issue was complicated by misreading of intentions,...
Hodder Education, 2011. — 209 p. — (Access to History). This title investigates the events which led to the British domination of the North American colonies during its conflict with France, and the resulting tensions which followed this success. It goes on to examine the British policies towards the colonies and how these laid the path to American independence and ultimately,...
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 200 p. This timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times. It covers his long relationship with Africa during the most important period in Anglo-African history, from nineteenth-century imperial rule to independence and the emergence of modern Africa. Churchill first went to Africa during the British re-conquest of...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 248 p. Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these two roles Allenby's eight years in the Middle East were of great impact, and in probing his life an...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 320 p. The British Empire, especially in its late-Victorian heyday, spanned the world and linked a quarter of world's population to Britain through a shared, official, allegiance to the Crown. In the long history of empires the British imperial state was among the most powerful ever and a major global player. "A New A-Z of Empire" catches the current...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — p. The essays in this volume have been written by leading experts in their respective fields and bring together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the 'new' imperial and the 'new' migration histories, and is essential reading for scholars and students interested in...
Manchester University Press, 1995. — 243 p. Over 5 million service personnel were demobilized by Great Britain and her four self-governing dominions after World War I. For many their re-adjustment to civilian life was difficult and full of bitter disappointment. This book studies one of the principal solutions advanced by the reconstruction planners - resettlement of returning...
Penguin Group (Australia), 2008. — 405 p. — ISBN: 978-0141-03731-8 The British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the...
UCL Press, 2018. — 540 p. The East India Company at Home, 1757– 1857 is an impressive process of distillation that Margot Finn and Kate Smith have put together a coherent survey of the material traces of old India hands – the lucky ones who survived to be repatriated and to make their mark anew in Britain – compiled from a refreshing variety of perspectives. In the century...
Routledge, 2012. — 359 p. John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, international and imperial, delegated to a War Cabinet committee under Lord Curzon. The motives of Curzon and others in attempting to obtain a privileged political position in the Hejaz are studied in the...
Routledge, 2018. — 224 p. Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the Ottoman Empire, Morocco and Abyssinia, illuminating interlinking...
Routledge, 2018. — 224 p. Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the Ottoman Empire, Morocco and Abyssinia, illuminating interlinking...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2010. — 323 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy 189). — ISBN: 978-8311118744. W 1879 roku na południowej półkuli rozgorzała wojna kolonialna, która głęboko wstrząsnęła społeczeństwem wiktoriańskiej Anglii. Wojna ta została rozpętana praktycznie bez powodu, w pogoni za polityczną sławą i karierą, ale wpłynęła na losy całych państw. Państwo Zulusów zostało zniszczone,...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 291 p. When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 336 p. How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police state. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Empire responded to numerous crises in its colonies, from North America to Jamaica, Bengal to New...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 336 p. How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police state. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Empire responded to numerous crises in its colonies, from North America to Jamaica, Bengal to New...
Peepal Tree Press, 2020. — 324 p. Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class, and...
Routledge, 2019. — 256 p. This study, first published in 1940, examines in detail the suppression of piracy in China. From a starting point of the considering the influence of the Admiralty on the development of British foreign policy in the nineteenth century, it studies the actions of the China Station and in particular its undertakings to suppress piracy in the Far East. 1....
William Collins, 2017. — 352 p. Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years' War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous. Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales was once the hope of Britain. Eldest son to James VI...
New York: New American Library, 1971. — 274 pgs. From the British perspective, the Russian Empire's expansion into Central Asia threatened to destroy the "jewel in the crown" of the British Empire, India. The Emirate of Afghanistan might then become a staging post for a Russian invasion of India. It was with these thoughts in mind that in 1838 the British launched the First...
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008. — 612 p. Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at...
Frank Cass, 1995. — 153 p. This collection of essays identifies a neglected but significant component of Britain's maritime and labour history, that of ethnic labour drawn from Britain's colonies in West Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume (with contributors from sociologists, historians and Middle Eastern specialists), has meant that a...
Pluto Press, 2021. — 208 p. Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies, and in particular the people of Africa, Asia and Australasia. Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and...
University of California Press, 2012. — 268 p. In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of "savages" from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the "savage visit" became a sensation. Using a wealth of sources, Kate Fullagar shows why the phenomenon grew and how it related to bitter...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 320 p. A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both. Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 320 p. A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both. Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 344 p. Richard Fulton's Warrior Generation 1865-1885 fundamentally rethinks the efficacy of an institutional drive among influential middle-class opinion leaders to militarize lower-class boys in Victorian Britain. He contends that instead of engendering the desired cultural militarism, as has been commonly argued, their push had merely...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 240 p. Product Description Through his teaching in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Jack Gallagher was a major influence on a generation of students of empire. His re-interpretation of the nature of British imperialism, most notably in Africa and the Victorians (written with Ronald Robinson) stimulated much debate. His...
Routledge, 2020. — 180 p. This book presents a bold, multifaceted interpretation of early English imperial actions by examining the ways in which English empire-builders and travelers interacted with Indigenous and African peoples during the long process of colonization in the Americas. Ignacio Gallup-Díaz argues that early English imperial actors were primarily motivated by...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 394 p. How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the...
Granada Publishing, 1971. — 329 p. The Spice Lands. The Carnatic. Prelude to Conquest. The Conquest of Bengal. The Age of Clive. The Age of Warren Hastings. The Victories of Eyre Coote. Cornwallis. The Wellesleys. The Age of Raffles. Servants of the Company. The Age of Reform. Beyond the Sutlej. The Lawrences. The Age of Dalhousie. The Storm Clouds. The Great Revolt. End of the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 272 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
How much did the British Empire cost, and how did Britain pay for it? Taxing Colonial Africa explores a source of funds much neglected in research on the financial structure of the Empire, namely revenue raised in the colonies themselves. Requiring colonies to be financially self-sufficient was one of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 467 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-83848-1 On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre the whole British cabinet at its monthly dinner. The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since Guy Fawkes'...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 382 p. Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series ‘Britain’s Black Past’, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously known, and will be introduced to people, places, and stories brought to light by new...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 290 p. In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departure of the British from India and how, in response, the...
Brill, 1979. — 228 p. This book sets out to examine the way in which the English East India Company recruited servants, civil and military, for service in Bengal, the type of person selected, and the links they forged among themselves and with elements in the home administration. It also studies the growth of an Anglo-Indian community in Bengal. In its second part, it examines...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 272 p. Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of British success across the Middle East and North Africa. This image of empire was shattered after the First World War by the development of nationalism...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. — 728 p. George Nathaniel Curzon’s controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country’s empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and foreign secretary under King George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era. David Gilmour’s...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — 640 p. An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence. Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. — 351 p. David Gilmour's superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the great writer's life and work mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His great poem "Recessional" celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism,...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. — 416 p. Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness,...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 256 p.
This book deals with the last days of the British Empire in Palestine, December 1947 - May 1948. The study based on the diary of the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government, Sir Henry Gurney. In many ways, Palestine of 1948 was a microcosm of the British Empire on the eve of its disappearance from the international arena....
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 225 p. In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been...
London: Routledge, 1999. - 128 p.
British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involvement in the Scramble for Africa, the Anglo-Boer War, the foreign policy of Lord Salisbury and the prospects for Britain and the Empire at the end...
Verso, 2019. — 624 p. Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 344 p. Dazzling, dedicated, some would say cast in an heroic mold, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India was the last of the great British Moghuls. But it was also Curzon who was responsible for the partitioning of Bengal, an act which was to fuel widespread resentment and to foreshadow the Raj's demise. At thirty-nine, Curzon was the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 256 p. Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence. Exploring the connections and comparisons between the Perak War (1875–76), the 'Hut...
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 257 p. This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb and Thomas Sedgwick, this book offers a comparative history of how the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 475 p. In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2021. — 147 p. This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals for an imperial paper currency in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic, to show how manage colonial currency and banking in the expanding empire. Existing studies have looked at the successes and failures of schemes in individual colonies. But some had grander...
University of California Press, 2019. — 230 p. Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial networks among revolutionaries...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 236 p. A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book...
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 480 p. Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon...
London: Montreal & Kingston, 1999. - 274 p.
The authors examine the interaction of missionary organizations with local political powers and with their home government, arguing that in trying to decide which course of action to pursue, missionaries became knowledgeable students of imperial politics and the shifting state of international affairs. They show that leadership of...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 190 p. During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Agade, 2014. — 181 s. W 1600 roku do wschodnich wybrzeży japońskiej wyspy Kiusiu dotarł holenderski statek "Liefde". Na jego pokładzie znajdowała się garstka wyczerpanych marynarzy ocalałych z niezwykle trudnej przeprawy przez Cieśninę Magellana i Pacyfik. Wśród nich był nawigator William Adams (1564-1620) - pierwszy Anglik w Japonii. Jego niezwykła...
Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising of peasants, artisans and discontented aristocrats...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 248 p. This book examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging in the construction and circulation of white supremacist thought that sought to justify British imperial rule. During the 18th century, European imperial expansion radically increased population mobility through the forging of new trade routes, war, disease, enslavement...
Routledge, 2017. — 205 p. This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short...
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 252 p. From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the "second city of the empire." Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However,...
Liverpool University Press, 2014. — 288 p. In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were strictly bound by commonly-understood...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -350p. This pioneering volume addresses the question of how Britain’s empire was lived through everyday practices – in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories – from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 272 р. Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain’s claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain. This book engages with...
Routledge, 2007. — 401 p. This reader collects together different articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasizing approaches; the colonisers "at home"; and "away".
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 232 p. Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 232 p. Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 256 p. An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders. This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders—George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras—and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — 471 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3088-8 In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain’s shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 288 p. Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 266 p. The half century between 1783 and 1833 witnessed the creation of British India. Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. Comparing Malcolm with contemporaries such as James Mill, this book uses his works to examine the...
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 416 p. The real-life story of Robert Clive would be judged as wildly implausible if it came from the pen of a novelist. Clive of India was one of the most extraordinary and colorful figures Britain ever produced. The founder of Britain's Indian empire, he was also Britain's first great guerrilla fighter by the age of twenty-seven, conqueror of Bengal...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 172 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from...
Routledge, 2019. — 309 p. During a substantial stay in some East Bengal villages in the summer of 1971, when East Pakistan was in the traumatic process of being transformed into Bangladesh, it first dawned upon me that peasants were not stupid, devoid of political consciousness. Discussions with different types of peasants revealed that at least the upper echelons were aware of...
Routledge, 1996. — 217 p. The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration of government although barred in the main from...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 256 p. Explore Tangier's occupation through vivid characters and unravel the complexities of colonial aspirations, deceit, corruption, and international influences in this historical narrative. In 1661 Portugal ceded Tangier to Charles II as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry settlement. Thus started the adventure known as ‘English Tangier’...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 256 p. Explore Tangier's occupation through vivid characters and unravel the complexities of colonial aspirations, deceit, corruption, and international influences in this historical narrative. In 1661 Portugal ceded Tangier to Charles II as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry settlement. Thus started the adventure known as ‘English Tangier’...
University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 608 p. Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The...
Caxton, 2000. — 384 p. In the style which caused his Napoleonic Source Book and World War One Source Book to become mainstays of military history since their publication, Philip Haythornthwaite again brings his orderly thoroughness to the evaluation of the colonial warfare which afflicted the world in the 19th century. The author has a masterly grasp of the most important...
Anthem Press, 2022. — 505 p. — (Anthem Studies in British History). A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600–1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776–1870), the New Imperialism (1870–1945), Decolonisation (1945–1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990–2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one...
Anthem Press, 2023. — 870 p. For more than four centuries, Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britain’s Empires tells that story without flinching from the oppressive and exploitative side of the imperial mission that shaped world history. It also aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention, where...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 240 p. Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 240 p. Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by...
Pen & Sword Military, 2007. — 240 p. The events of 1857 to 1859 were tragic and momentous. The challenge to British colonial rule was on an unprecedented scale. Initially a mutiny by local troops, the conflict spread to involve local princes, rulers and land-owners. The fighting was widespread and involved horrific acts of brutality by both sides as well as great courage. In...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843 explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or...
Cambridge: University Press, 2012. - 312 p. The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military...
Viking Press, 1978. — 472 p. A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in 1978 and re-issued with a handsome new cover for the 2002 paperback edition. This is a good book on the history of the the indian Mutiny of 1857. it is a indepth chronological...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 192 p. The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bagh park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established with harsh penalties and punishments. Often considered as the darkest period of the Raj, the...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 1526745771, ISBN-13 978-1526745774. The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bath park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established with harsh penalties and punishments. Often...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 400 p. The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company - from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion. The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 400 p. The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company - from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion. The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious...
Westholme Publishing, 2017. — 288 p. A haven for pirates and the center of the New World's frenzied trade in slaves and sugar, Port Royal, Jamaica, was a notorious cutthroat settlement where enormous fortunes were gained for the fledgling English empire. But on June 7, 1692, it all came to a catastrophic end. Drawing on research carried out in Europe, the Caribbean, and the...
Metropolitan Books, 2014. — 240 p. An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake. At its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the economic and cultural powerhouses of the...
Brill, 2012. — 360 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2. South Asia 27). India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and...
Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2014. — 284 p. The book brings to light the British policy and the nationalist movement in Egypt in its historical and political context. This has been done through detailed coverage as to the role played by the British interference in Egyptian political, social and economic aspects as well as through illustrating the methods that were used to control...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 275 p. This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and employ the poor gave it a strategic importance in...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 320 p. After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority to other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced...
Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 396 p.
This unique account of the "uneasy special relationship" between Britain and South Africa surveys all political, economic, cultural, and geostrategic aspects. Starting from the bruising experience of the South African Boer War, Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw trace the countries' deteriorating relationship through a series of crises to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 377 p. The undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire. The dynamics of this extraordinary enterprise are considered broadly: the high-political concerns of strategy and international geopolitics are...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 245 p. Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 572 p. Understanding the British Empire draws on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field. Essays cover six key themes: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of empire, religion and ethics, imperial bureaucracy, the contribution of political leaders, the significance...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 272 p. In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world--the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, Massacre in the Punjab and the Croke Park Massacre, the first 'Bloody Sunday', in Ireland. This book provides a study at the cutting edge of British imperial historiography, concentrating on British...
Routledge, 2013. — 252 p. The twelve studies of empire-building and empire-builders which make up this volume range widely across the dream world that was the British Empire from the late eighteenth century to the Second World War. The essays re-interpret the work of imperial heroes, eminent historians, and fictional heroines. They illustrate the variety of techniques used by...
Routledge, 2001. — 295 p. These ten historical studies detailed analyse the steps of the formation dance the British danced in the Middle Eastern international system from the late 18th Century to the outbreak of the Cold War.
Boydell Press, 2022. — 344 p. This volume brings together leading global economic historians to honour Patrick O'Brien's contribution to the establishment of global economic history as a coherent and respected field in the academy. Inspired by O'Brien's seminal work on the British Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon, these essays expand the role of the Industrial...
Global, Area, and International Archive. University of California Press, 2013. — 311 p. The Origins of Colonial Demography The Colonial Office and the Population Question, 1918– 1939 War, Population, and the New Colonial State Population and the Postwar Empire Population in a Post colonial World British Population Policy in the Post colonial Era Conclusion: Population and the...
Routledge, 2017. — 256 p. During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and private archives, Ivermee presents a study of British/Muslim negotiations over the secularization of colonial Indian education and on the changing nature of secularism across space and time.
Routledge, 2016. — 262 p. At the start of the Second World War, Britain was at the height of its imperial power, and it is no surprise that it drew upon the global resources of the Empire once war had been declared. Whilst this international aspect of Britain’s war effort has been well-studied in relation to the military contribution of individual dominions and colonies,...
Hambledon Continuum A Continuum imprint. 2006. - 604 p. Prologue The Approach of War Imperial War The Home Front The Atlantic The Caribbean The Mediterranean Iraq, Iran and Syria Sub-Saharan Africa The Indian Ocean The Islands of the Indian Ocean India and Burma South-East Asia and the Far East Australia and New Zealand 4 The Pacific Epilogue
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 144 p. From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world's population. The territories forming this colossus ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses, and included...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 144 p. From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world's population. The territories forming this colossus ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses, and included...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 257 p. By examining Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, this synthesis of imperial and naval/military history reveals the depths of colonial involvement in the Second World War and the role of colonies in British strategic planning from the 18th century. In the century of total war, the British Empire was fully mobilized. The author looks at how the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 269 p. Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood.
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 336 p. The Indian village council, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth century,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 496 p. First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years after Virginia and eight years before Plymouth, Bermuda is a foundational site of English colonization. Its history reveals strikingly different paths...
Knopf Doubleday, 2005. — 404 p. A mansion filled with Western art in the center of old Calcutta, the Mughal emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples. In this book, Jasanoff delves into the stories behind vestiges such as these to uncover the lives of people who lived on the frontiers of the...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 224 p. Sir William Reardon Smith, founder of the Reardon Smith shipping line, was one of the foremost figures in south Wales in the early twentieth century. Starting as a cabin boy, he made a fortune as a ship owner at the height of the Welsh coal trade and subsequently showed great entrepreneurial initiative during the Great Depression,...
Liverpool University Press, 2009. — 255 p. The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War. During the riots, crowds of white working-class people targeted black workers, their...
Manchester University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 332 p. During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb's private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain's post-1945 retreat from empire in the...
Routledge, 2012. — 221 p. Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of...
Nine Elms Books, 2020. — 304 p. Over the last seven hundred years the United Kingdom has acquired a staggering array of treasures as a direct result of its military activities - from Joan of Arc's ring to the Rock of Gibraltar to Hitler's desk. Spoils of War describes these spoils and how they came to be acquired as well as telling the tales of some of the extraordinary (and...
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 250 p. Engendering Whiteness draws on a wide variety of sources including property deeds, wills, court transcripts, and interrogates the ways in which white women could be simultaneously socially positioned within plantation societies as both agents and as victims. It also reveals the strategies deployed by elite and poor white women in...
New York: N.Y. University Press, 2007. - 320 c. This is the story of the 300,000 plus British and Irish citizens who were either forcibly deported or went as indentured servants to slavery at the tobacco or sugar plantations of Maryland,Virginia or the Caribbean Islands in the 17 and 18 centurys. Those forcibly deported included unwanted children,nerdowells,criminals,the Irish...
NYU Press, 2008. — 320 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured...
NYU Press, 2008. — 320 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured...
SUNY Press, 2021. — 278 p. Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance. In Empire News, Priti Joshi examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire. Focusing on the period between 1845 and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 282 p. 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonisers.
Harper Collins, 1993. — 496 p. During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world\'s trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 232 p. In 1891 a major anti-British revolt erupted in the northeast Indian princely state of Manipur after a dangerously miscalculated attempt by the Government of India to assert its authority in the wake of a palace coup. Following the murder of a number of senior officers, a substantial British force descended upon the state to restore order and to bring...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 295 p. By the late nineteenth century the traditional royal status of Indian princes was under threat.Weakened by treaties concluded with the East India Company,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality, accountability and efficiency and to introduce bureaucracies...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 302 p. Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the British Empire, S. Karly Kehoe starts an important and timely debate about Britain’s...
London: Routledge, 2008. - 352 p. Product Description This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of imperial defence and defence of empire, so...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 239 p. An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War. A Tale of Two Nationalisms. Congresses and Conspiracies. In England’s Misfortune, Our Opportunity. Revolutions and Realities....
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 329 p. This book is a study of the British administrative policy in the initial stages, the imperatives which went into the framing of the administrative policy, the policy itself and the immediate dislocation of the society under the new and unfamiliar dispensation. The author has laid bare the ground realities of the process of colonial...
Routledge, 2016. — 290 p. This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a...
The Boydell Press, 2004. — 243 p. Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London)...
Routledge, 1994. — 245 p. This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years. Africans in the United Kingdom: An Introduction. Unreconciled Strivings and Ironic Strategies: Three Afro-British Authors of the Late Georgian Period. Skilled Workers or Marginalized Poor? The African Population of the United Kingdom, 1812-52....
Manchester University Press, 2008. — 224 p. In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 230 p. The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were full of monsoon rain. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal -- a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some...
Routledge, 2020. — 280 p. This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then the Assam–Burma frontier). It sheds light on how the three-year war (1917–1919), spanning over 6,000 square miles, is crucial to understanding present-day Northeast India. Companion to the seminal The Anglo-Kuki War,...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 264 p. International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever...
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 336 p. This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon extensive primary and secondary...
Macmillan Education, 1996. — 205 p. From the First to the Second Empire: 1400s to 1830s. The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century. The Heyday of Empire, 1876–1914. The Empire in War and Peace, 1914–1939. The Empire and Commonwealth at War, 1939–1945. Labour and the Empire, 1945–1951. The End of the Empire. The Commonwealth Today. The Commonwealth: Problems and Perspectives.
Routledge, 2021. — 440 p. A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The original texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Warszawa: PWN, 1989. — 352+16 s. z ilus. Wstęp. Kształtowanie się i rozwój imperium brytyjskiego w Afryce. Przemiany gospodarczo-społeczne w Afryce Narastanie tendencji narodowowyzwoleńczych. Likwidacja zarządu kolonialnego w Afryce Zachodniej. Dekolonizacja Afryki wschodniej. Charakter przemian politycznych w Afryce Centralnej. Polityka brytyjska w procesie rozpadu imperium....
Routledge, 2018. — 252 р. This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd - to name a...
Routledge, 2016. — 288 р. The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 208 p. This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the world was being transformed and extended much more widely. Based on extensive original research including in newly discovered archives, the book reveals, through the study of one particular merchant and his extensive network, how trade in the...
Anthem Press, 2012. — 228 p. British India is now a distant memory and, works of family piety and nostalgia apart, attention has naturally moved to Indian history. As a consequence, it is not easy to find a modern reliable account of the las ninety years of Crown rule (1858-1947). This short book, written in the light of the historiographical revolution of the past generation,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 504 p. Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office, showing how...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 505 p. Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office, showing how...
Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 368 p. ISBN10: 0521767911 ISBN13: 9780521767910 (eng)
This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B....
Cornell University Press, 1994. — 264 p. What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following their overwhelming victory in the Seven Years War.
Brill, 2010. — 662 p. — (Brill's Indological Library 33). Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company induced the Bengal...
New York University Press, 2011. — 312 p. Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce. Colonial ports were governable places where British vessels, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 328 p. This book illuminates British imperial policy after World War II in the context of economic policy and offers a novel argument about the end of the British Empire. Economic discrimination in the empire in the late 1940s and early 1950s sustained Britain's recovery, when political control in the colonies was feasible. Subsequently, economic...
Łódz: Wyd. Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019. — 233 s. — ISBN 978-83-8142-295-6 Publikacja ma charakter naukowy, a interdyscyplinarność jest jej niezaprzeczalną zaletą. Łączenie w książce refleksji literaturoznawców, historyków i kulturoznawców dało w efekcie pracę złożoną, ciekawą, różnorodnie omawiającą badane zjawisko, a przez to atrakcyjną poznawczo dla czytelników...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 340 p. This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study...
Routledge, 1999. — 248 p. This is an analysis of the nature and impact of the Indian presence in imperial Britain, and British reactions to it. Problems of discrimination, isolation, and deprivation turned many students to politics, they appropriated ideas and institutions, and challenged British metropolitan society.
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 256 p. This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links with governors and colonial officials...
Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016. — 457 p. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 248 p. Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power. While historians have written on exploration, commerce, imperial transport and communications networks, and the...
Endeavour Press Ltd., 2014. — 318 p. In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile (1798) in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet. This was also Nelson's first independent fleet command, and the author shows the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. — 208 p. Philip Lawson examines the profound effect that the conquest of Quebec had on British politics and imperial thought in the years leading to the signing of the Quebec Act in 1774. He reinterprets the standard accounts of the conquest of Quebec in 1760, challenging prevailing ideas about political traditions and philosophical...
Routledge, 2021. — 210 p. This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century. It investigates the bureaucratic culture of early Company administrators, primarily at the district level, and the influence of that culture on the nature and scope of colonial government in India....
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 374 p. Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from the harsh, racial hierarchies of...
Routledge, 2021. — 512 p. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 416 p. Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004. — 320 р.
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Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this new collection...
Pearson Education Limited, Longman, 2007. — 265 p.
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Manchester University Press, 2020. — 345 p. At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 304 p. James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society—an ideal of collective life between the family and politics—not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil society was first invented as an...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 264 p. — (Worlds of the East India Company, 2). A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen. The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought.Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company...
I.B.Tauris, 2012. — 288 p. On April 13, 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10 pm on that day, Brigadier-General "Rex" Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the center of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 464 p. For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial...
Little Brown and Company, 2011. — 644 p. There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanizers. The Churchills is a...
Blink Publishing, 2019. — 528 p. The intimate story of a unique marriage that spans the heights of glamour and power to infidelity, manipulation and disaster through the heart of the 20th century. Dickie Mountbatten: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the Royal Family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 232 p. Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin. Through an exploration of master-servant relationships within British, white Australian and Chinese homes, this book illustrates the centrality of the domestic realm to the colonial...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 238 p. Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 304 p. Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals the extent of military control that Britain...
Manchester University Press, 1994. — 280 p. During the last thirty years of the nineteenth century the British Empire increased enormously and by 1900 the Empire covered a fifth of the world's land surface. In Britain itself, the growth of Empire came to the centre of the political debate and was applauded by a large sympathetic press. Two sides of imperialism had emerged - the...
Brill, 2005. — 406 p. — (The Atlantic World 5). During the past few years it has become fashionable to speak of the "British Atlantic" and examine the Anglophone communities that came to populate it shores. This collection of essays undertakes something quite different. It examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a...
Niyogi Books, 2008. — 178 p. The Sepoy Mutiny was a violent and very bloody uprising against British rule in India in 1857. It is also known by other names: the Indian Mutiny, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or the Indian Revolt of 1857. In Britain and in the West, it was almost always portrayed as a series of unreasonable and bloodthirsty uprisings spurred by falsehoods about...
Manchester University Press, 1986. — 272 p. Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian...
Manchester University Press, 1990. — 225 p. Imperial power, both formal and informal, and research in the natural sciences were closely dependent in the nineteenth century. This book examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. It discusses...
Birlinn, 2021. — 282 p. This text analyses the origins, development and impact of British army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenancy with an emphasis on tenant reactions to recruiting.
New South, 2020. — 344 p. ‘Commonwealth, curry and cricket’ has become the belaboured phrase by which Australia seeks to emphasise its shared colonial heritage with India and improve bilateral relations in the process. Yet it is misleading because the legacy of empire differs in profound ways in both countries. British India, White Australia explores connections between...
2nd Revised Edition — Thames and Hudson, 2018. — 320 p. In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country – where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the...
Australian National University, 1982. — 198 p. Guide to pronunciation Glossary of Fijian words Abbreviations New whit e men without knowledge The assault on land rights The erosion of hereditary privilege The new politics of chiefly power The continuities of village life and politics Apolosi R. Nawai and the Viti Company The vein of discontent Compromise for a mul tiracial...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 246 p. This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual material, Anna Maguire explores new contact zones that materialised beyond the battlefield, on troopships, in ports, in military camps...
Liverpool University Press, 2012. — 384 p. Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the...
Srimati Chaudhuri, 1957. — 312 p. Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow. In India it is often called the First War of Independence...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 256 p. The East India Company, which was by 1800 a commercial organisation of unrivalled size and complexity managing a vast empire in Asia, also played a crucial role in the British economy, particularly in London, where the Company wasthe largest employer of civilian labour in the early nineteenth century, with thousands of workmen in its metropolitan...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 252 p. As the British prepared for war in Afghanistan in 1839, rumors spread of a Muslim conspiracy based in India's Deccan region. Colonial officials were convinced that itinerant preachers of jihad - whom they labelled 'Wahhabis' - were collaborating with Russian and Persian armies, and inspiring Muslim princes to revolt. Officials detained...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 416 p. The main contention of Shooting a Tiger is that hunting during the colonial period was not merely a recreational activity, but a practice intimately connected with imperial governance. The book positions shikar or hunting at the heart of colonial rule by demonstrating that, for the British in India, it served as a political, practical,...
Routledge, 2012. — 256 p. This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: The myths and visions of imperialism; The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing...
Routledge, 1990. — 227 p. This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm. The study compares the perceptions of people at ‘home’, in the dominions and in the colonies. Across the diversity of imperial territories it explores themes such as the diverse nature of political socialisation, the various...
Routledge, 1993. — 265 p. This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and South Africa, through the Indian subcontinent to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 184 p. Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century. Only the Sudanese and Zulu campaigns saw a greater loss of life, both for the British and the indigenous population. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars -...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 184 p. Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century. Only the Sudanese and Zulu campaigns saw a greater loss of life, both for the British and the indigenous population. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars -...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 384 p. During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 315 p. Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space. List...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 254 p. This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects--those constituencies that were seen as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 363 p. Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 292 p. This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0-521-43211-1. A reassessment of the history and role of the British empire is timely. It is the aim of The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire to present to general readers in a clear and accesible way the findings of historians of empire over recent years. The book serves both as a full survey of the...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 662 p. The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British...
Frank Cass, 1980. — 140 p. The Empire and the Provincial Elites. The Board of Trade and London-American Interest Groups in the Eighteenth Century. Warfare and Political Change in Mid-Eighteenth Century Massachusetts. British Government Spending and the North American Colonies 1740–1775. The Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution: the Causal Relationship Reconsidered. Old...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1986. — 231 p. Introduction: A. P. Thornton: Realism Tempered by Wit. A System of Commands: the Infrastructure of Race Contact. An Imperial Idea and Its Friends: Canadian Confederation and the British. The Imperial Historian as ‘Colonial Nationalist’: George McCall Theal and the Making of South African History. The Raj as Daydream: the Pukka Sahib as Henty...
Brill, 2014. — 350 p. — (The Atlantic World 28). British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 provides the first study of British captives in the North African Atlantic and Mediterranean, from the reign of Elizabeth I to George II. Based on extensive archival research in the United Kingdom, Nabil Matar furnishes the names of all captives while examining...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2011. - 304 pages
ISBN: 1848856091
The late nineteenth century is generally thought of as a period of fervent imperial enthusiasm in Britain. However, beneath the surface there were currents of discontent. Mira Matikkala here examines modes of thought in Late Victorian Britain that were described as anti-imperialist in the period 1878-1901. In doing...
Louisiana State University Press, 2006. — 216 p. In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews...
Harper Collins, 2021. — 416 p. How can we explain the establishment and longevity of British rule in India without recourse to the clichés of "imperial" versus "nationalist" interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews offers a more nuanced view: one of "oblige and rule", the foundation of common purpose between colonizers and powerful Indians. Peace, Poverty and...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 312 p. In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, the Welsh were to have a profound...
London, S. Sonnenschein & Co.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1903. — 376 p. В книге рассматриваются принципы и проблемы организации имперской обороны Великобритании. Foundations of Empire. The Analogy between Land and Sea Warfare and their influence on one another. The Predominance of the Navy. The Function of the Army. Combined Naval and Military Operations. Naval Bases and...
Routledge, 2014. — 301 p. Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 288 p. A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 272 p. In the early 20th century, the 'problem' of interracial relations between British colonials and natives was a hotly debated topic in British India. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women in an institution in Kalimpong, in the foothills of the Himalayas,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 322 p. Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
Routledge, 2014. — 359 p. Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New World for a century before those colonies were established, and the British presence long outlived their loss. This integrated account of that involvement...
I.B. Tauris, 2008. — 304 p. The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new "Great Britain." How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? This book looks at the effects of the Act of the Union on Britain and its colonies. From 1725 onward, a patronage...
I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 343 p. Laurence Sulivan embodied the East India Company. He lived at the Company's heart in the city of London in India House, and controlled a vast commercial and political empire during Britain's "Commercial Revolution" and rise to superpower status and supremacy in India and South and Southeast Asia. He was "king-maker," politician, manipulator and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 132 p. This book explores an Australian regional community’s reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first...
Routledge, 2021. — 288 p. The story of the transformation of the old British Empire into the modern Commonwealth had often been told from the point of view of Great Britain and the ‘white dominions’. No attempt had so far been made to describe the decisive role of India in the shaping of the multi-racial Commonwealth of today. Originally published in 1965, the main theme of...
Manchester University Press, 1998. — 228 p. This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how feminist historians can play a central...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 322 p. This book offers a detailed investigation of George S. White’s career in the British Army. It explores late Victorian military conflicts, British power dynamics in Africa and Asia, civil-military relations on the fringes of the empire, and networks of advancement in the army. White served in the Indian Rebellion and, twenty years later, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 322 p. This book offers a detailed investigation of George S. White’s career in the British Army. It explores late Victorian military conflicts, British power dynamics in Africa and Asia, civil-military relations on the fringes of the empire, and networks of advancement in the army. White served in the Indian Rebellion and, twenty years later, the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. — 357 p. — (History of Warfare 56). The essays in this volume concentrate on imperial conflict. Until recently, most historians of empire have concerned themselves with economic issues. More recently, scholarship has turned to social and cultural aspects of Empire. The role of the military, however, continues to be largely ignored. Historians...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 352 p. A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between English commercial...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 432 p. At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the East India Company’s...
Pen & Sword Books, 2014. — 155 p. John Dunn, resembling a hero of fiction rather than a normal man, was one of the most extraordinary characters of 19th century South Africa. In 1852, at the age of 16 he turned his back on the fledgling colonial settlement of Port Natal and, crossing the Tugela River, headed into Zululand... King Cetsshwayo recorded his first meeting with Dunn,...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 320 p. The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being...
ANU Press, 2019. — 500 p. — ISBN 9781760463083 Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island’s facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 230 p. The studies in this book concern crucial episodes in the making of British colonial policies in the run-up to Indian independence. The different approaches of the British political parties throughout the last thirty years of the Indian Raj are explored.
Routledge, 2013. — 304 p. This is a detailed study on the period preceding the Mahdist revolution in the Sudan. It analyses the administration and political developments under the governor-generalship of Gordon in 1877-1880.
Oxford: University Press, 2008. - 221 p.
Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 459 p. British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power at sea and overseas. He demonstrates...
Basic Books, 2010. — 368 p. A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill’s record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 346 p. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial front in the British/American conflict with Japan during World War II, Bengal stood at the crossroads of complex forces that describe an era of political uncertainty, social turmoil, and collective violence. The period (1939-1946) can be...
Routledge, 2017. — 174 p. Rudrangshu Mukherjee places the ‘soldier-peasant’ at the forefront of the Revolt. Violence has rarely been described with so much realism and subtlety. The imaginative use of primary source materials adds clarity to accounts such as the massacre in Satichaura Ghat and the trial of Mangal Pandey. The layers of complexity that defined the relationship...
NYU Press, 2021. — 375 p. Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement. When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by...
Boydell Press, 2003. — 544 p. This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's largest maritime and mercantile conglomerate, tracing...
Norman Printing Bureau, 1923. — 240 p. The Malabar rebellion happened in August 20, 1921 – 1922 in the Malabar region of Kerala, India.The Malabar rebellion of 1921 (also known by the names Moplah riots, Mappila riots) started as a resistance against the British colonial rule in Malabar region of Kerala, India, but later turned into communal violence against the Hindus. The...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 288 p. The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonization during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 202 p. The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however,...
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 365 p. An Empire of Regions is a refreshing interpretation of British American history that demonstrates how the thirteen British mainland colonies grew to function as self-governing entities in distinct regional clusters. In lucid prose, Eric Nellis invites readers to explore the circumstances leading to the colonies' collective defense of...
Routledge, 2019. — 416 p. Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could...
UNC Press Books, 2017. — 272 p. William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. Royal governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and then of New York from 1771 to 1780, Tryon became a general in the British army attempting to quell the American...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 242 p. Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects. The nineteenth-century policy of 'Aboriginal protection' has usually been seen as a fleeting initiative of imperial humanitarianism, yet it sat...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 272 p. When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of criminality. Where America's misguided Prohibition of alcohol made illicit fortunes for the Mafia, across the pond the organised criminals within the British Empire grew rich on their trade in illegal...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 228 p. Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain's emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European adventurers in North America, revealing the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 277 p. Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain's emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European adventurers in North America, revealing the...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 236 p. A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy. Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy allowed many enterprising and lawless men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as...
Irish Academic Press, 2006. — 328 p. Based on presentations at the Fourth Galway Conference on Colonialism, "India and Ireland", held at the National University of Ireland, June 2004. This book includes essays on a number of distinguished civil servants as well as chapters on such topics as law, religion, education, folk tale collecting, and literary connections between India...
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 272 p. Punjab, ‘the pride of British India’, attracted the cream of the Indian Civil Service, many of the most influential of whom were Irish. Some of these men, along with Irish viceroys, were inspired by their Irish backgrounds to ensure security of tenure for the Punjabi peasant, besides developing vast irrigation schemes which resulted...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 272 p. This collection examines the role of Britain in the Islamic world. It offers insight into the social, political, diplomatic, and military issues that arose over the centuries of British involvement in the region, particularly focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. British involvement can be separated into three phases: Discovery,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 272 p. This collection examines the role of Britain in the Islamic world. It offers insight into the social, political, diplomatic, and military issues that arose over the centuries of British involvement in the region, particularly focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. British involvement can be separated into three phases: Discovery,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 325 p. This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 480 p. The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 375 p. There were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica--were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 375 p. There were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica--were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a...
Oxford: University Press, 2008. - 300p.
From the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 to the winning of independence in 1947, this book traces the complex and often troubled relationship between anti-imperialist campaigners in Britain and in India. Nicholas Owen traces the efforts of British Radicals and socialists to identify forms of anti-imperialism in India...
Routledge Curzon, 2005. — 207 p. In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial government sources, private papers and the diaries and memoirs of those involved, this book...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 192 p. The establishment in British India produced an impressive number of scholars and scholarly amateurs who pursued historical and other studies and wrote books and articles of distinction. Mr Palmer has produced a work in this tradition. His subject is the outbreak of the Mutiny (as the Raj considered it) among the native regiments (as...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 308 p. Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. — 727 pp. — (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-7801-3. There have been many empires in the history of the world: the Assyrian Empire, the Egyptian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Empire on which “the sun never set,” and other more recent colonial empires including the...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 264 p. General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity. Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire –...
Sussex Academic Press, 2016. — 583 p. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as "the perfect leader", a man who "worked by influence rather than by loud direction... He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was and was not, and how much really belonged to him." This is...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 480 p. A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent ― through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 380 p. In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Drawing on what are recognised today as the texts and traditions of Hinduism, these works fed into a booming enlightenment interest in Eastern philosophy. At...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 350 p. In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Drawing on what are recognised today as the texts and traditions of Hinduism, these works fed into a booming enlightenment interest in Eastern philosophy. At...
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26), which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 217 p. This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 217 p. This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same...
London, 1905. — 282 p. The cause of empire The expansion of Europe The delay of the empire The founding of the empire The growth of the empire disruption and renewal The age of Cobden Imperialism America: rival and friend The case of the yellow peril The reply of christendom
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 384 p. South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 268 p. The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire which embodied the central tenets of sacrifice, fortitude, and military prowess that...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 310 p. A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father. In the North...
Ohio University Press, 2010. — 248 p. The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a...
University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 273 p. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 264 p. Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they...
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 264 p. Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-1920 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved,...
Routledge, 2020. — 538 p. This book is an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies in the effort to reach a better understanding of the part those islands played in the growth and dissolution of the British empire, including chapters on white labor in the sugar islands, the slave trade, and foreign markets for British sugar.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 320 p. In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity of the problem, speculated on its origins, and proposed solutions to it. No Wood, No Kingdom explores these conflicting attempts...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 252 p. - Considers both the American and British perspective on American colonisation - Reviews the legal cases that made up part of American opposition to British imperialism - Contains specific case study material based on original research This book explores the economic factors that led to Britain forfeiting its North American colonies. Placing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 252 p. - Considers both the American and British perspective on American colonisation - Reviews the legal cases that made up part of American opposition to British imperialism - Contains specific case study material based on original research This book explores the economic factors that led to Britain forfeiting its North American colonies. Placing...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 208 p. On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. These writers included West Indians George...
Oxford University Press, 1999. - 797 p. The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British...
St Martin's Press, 1968. — 369 p. The beginning of the Twentieth Century saw Britain in a more diplomatically exposed position than it had been in a long time. It was mired in the deeply unpopular Boer War that cast it as something of a bully. They had only recently averted all out war with the French over Fashoda and the Germans were challenging Britain's supremacy of the seas...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 301 p. The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle ‘flavour’ of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and...
Routledge, 2020. — 378 p. Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its ‘imperial’ implications, the sixth edition of The Lion’s Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present. Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this book presents a broad narrative of events and explores a...
Amberley Publishing, 2012. — 256 p. Samuel Pepys's London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 290 p. This book examines the British government's policy towards Ireland during the imperial crisis of 1750-1783, focusing on its attempts to reassert control over Ireland's increasingly hostile Protestant parliament and populace. Anglo-Irish relations are placed in a wider imperial framework, taking account of British policy towards its colonies,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 456 р. In the early phase of imperial domination, hill stations such as Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund, and Mount Abu were developed by the British to reflect a quintessentially European culture and ethos. Serving as recuperation sites for the sick and wounded, these hill spaces provided respite from the harsh climate of the plains. Adorned with...
Walker Books, 2012. — 320 p. Convinced in 1838 that Britain's invaluable empire in India was threatened by Russia, Persia, and Afghan tribes, the British government ordered its Army of the Indus into Afghanistan to oust from power the independent-minded king, Dost Mohammed, and install in Kabul the unpopular puppet ruler Shah Shuja. Expecting a quick campaign, the British found...
Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the British imperial presence and the First Peoples of what were to become Australia and New...
Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history. This book is about the consequences of the encounter in the early nineteenth century between the British imperial presence and the First Peoples of what were to become Australia and New...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 126 p. — ISBN10: 1137373407; ISBN13: 978-1137373403. Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by a profound set of doubts about the future of the British Empire. Drawing upon a wide range of popular sources, this study considers the level of middle-class engagement...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 224 p. For Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power. But in spite of their importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes,...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 257 p. Available in paperback for the first time, Married to the empire situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Rebutting interpretations that have marginalised women in the empire, this book demonstrates that women were crucial to establishing and sustaining the British Raj in India from the 'High...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 134 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). Upon her death on 22 January 1901, Queen Victoria was the longest-reigning monarch in British history. During her six-decade rule, Victoria witnessed a period of great change, from building the biggest empire the world has ever known, to the technological marvels of the Industrial...
Boydell and Brewer, 2020. — 370 p. Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 280 p. The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstract principles but imperial contact. As the Empire expanded, encompassing greater religious, ethnic and racial diversity, the law paradoxically contained and maintained these very...
Hindustan Books, 2012. — 453 p. Excerpt from England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India: In the ordinary course of nature, the man whom the shoe pinches is the best person to know about it but in politics the laws of nature are reversed. In judg ing of governments and rulers, it is they whose word is to be accepted and not that of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 274 p. Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain’s empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and including detailed case studies of the agricultural and...
SAGE Publications, 2013. — 185 p. The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography....
Peter Lang, 2019. — 280 p. The Central Legislature in British India 1921–1947: Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj is an exceptional exposé of Colonial India’s highest legislative body. With its wealth of materials and in-depth description of the former Indian Legislature’s actual working, its political milieu and its institutional development, this book belongs to the...
London: Pen and Sword, 2009. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-1844159215. A new battlefield guide to the Peninsular War is long overdue. Modern development in Spain and Portugal has encroached on many of the battlefields, new research has questioned established interpretations of events, and there is a broader appreciation of the parts played by all the armies involved - the French on...
Routledge, 2021. — 230 p. This book makes a pioneering attempt to analyse the linkages between the rule of East India Company and urban environment in colonial India over more than a half-century - from 1746 to 1803 - through a study of the city of Madras (present Chennai). The book traces urban development in colonial South India from a broad economic history point of view and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 244 p. The first biography of Alfred Webb, Irish nationalist and president of the 1894 Indian National Congress. The biography explores how Webb viewed nationalism as a vehicle for global social justice. Drawing on archives in Britain, Ireland and India the author reveals how Irish and Indians used cosmopolitan London to create networks across the...
Routledge, 1997. — 196 p. This volume profiles a dozen British men and women, who, for varying reasons, opposed the policy of the British government towards its 13 colonies before and during the American Revolution. Their actions helped prepare the way for the recognition of the United States as an independent nation.
Birlinn, 2011. — 470 p. At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by Britain and France, who carved up the old Ottoman possessions with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers were devised and alien dynasties imposed on the populations as arbitrarily as in mediaeval times. It was destined from the outset to failure. Promises...
Birlinn, 2016. — 224 p. When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference to a vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 288 p. This book discusses British thought on race and racial differences in the latter phases of empire from the 1890s to the early 1960s. It focuses on the role of racial ideas in British society and politics and looks at the decline in Victorian ideas of white Anglo-Saxon racial solidarity. The impact of anthropology is shown to have had a...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 352 p. Parliament’s decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave trade relied on the power of ordinary...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 352 p. Beneath the plains of Afghanistan lie the remains of a fabulous city: Alexandria Beneath the Mountains, founded by Alexander the Great. For centuries, it was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, spy, archaeologist, deserter, and the greatest of...
Vintage, 2023. — 776 p. After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens from Asia and the Caribbean migrated to a motherland that often refused to recognise them. Race riots erupted in Liverpool and Notting Hill even as communities lived and loved across...
University of California Press, 2021. — 270 p. In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 230 p. The volume also considers such issues as mapping of space, setting of administrative boundaries, definition of languages, policies towards representation and popular education, and the onset of decolonization. Tracing deeper connections across apparent subject boundaries, this book, like its companion Peasants, Political Economy, and Law,...
Routledge, 2021. — 298 p. This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state. The book discusses British theories and...
Viking Press, 2018. — 1279 p. Dovetailing with Roberts' previous work on the Second World War and its related major figures, examples being The Storm of War, the book received praise from a number of publications. Reviewers have viewed the one-volume biography as one of the best works on Winston Churchill, a statesman best known for serving as Prime Minister of the United...
Second Edition. — Pluto Press, 2012. — 281 p. This is a popular history of one of the world's most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian spices, the Company ended its days running Britain's Indian empire. In the process, it shocked its contemporaries with the scale of its...
Second Edition. — Pluto Press, 2012. — 654 p. — ISBN 978 0 7453 3196 6 This is a popular history of one of the world's most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian spices, the Company ended its days running Britain's Indian empire. In the process, it shocked its contemporaries...
Pluto Press, 2006. — 232 p. This is a popular history of one of the world's most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian spices, the Company ended its days running Britain's Indian empire. In the process, it shocked its contemporaries with the scale of its violence, corruption...
Viking, 1996. — 332 p. Robinson provides a unique analysis of the Indian Great Mutiny from the perspective of the British women involved. Robinson conveys, in a manner that strictly military writers do not, the scope of the Mutiny and its "domestic" impact. Only another woman could have written this book. Robinson combines sympathy with a certain level of judgment of the...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 224 p. This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 408 p. This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically, Rönnbäck and Broberg study the interaction between imperialist policies, colonial institutions and financial markets. Their primary method of analysis is examining micro- and macro-level data relating to a large sample of...
Routledge, 2016. — 516 p. For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly a mercantile enterprise, satisfied to simply trade, competing with other European traders. In the middle of the eighteenth century, as a response to French expansion in India, the East India Company redefined itself, becoming an active...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. — 297 p. David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own life-time, and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely to save souls and counter the slave trade? Or were...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 822 p. Cecil Rhodes was the dominant figure in 19th-century Southern Africa. It was his acquisition of diamond mines in South Africa that led to the formation of De Beer Ltd, the huge diamond corporation which he led, and he also dominated the gold mines of the region. With his wealth secured, he went on to dominate the political scene, first as...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 483 p. They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones—four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 264 p. This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain's control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America....
Manchester University Press, 2001. — 257 p. This wide-ranging collection explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and America. the contributors illuminate the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 343 p. Contribution of Santal, South Asian people in the freedom struggle against British rule in India; covers the period, 1845-1856; study based on pictorial representations. This book presents a study of British nineteenth-century representations of India in the popular press, specifically the "Illustrated London News" around 1850-1856. This...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 218 p. The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia. It looks at the origins of the Society of Friends in mid seventeenth century England and follows its development into a well organised sect with a sophisticated organisational structure spreading across the Atlantic world. The...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 312 p. This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 306 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children, racially diverse communities or societies, these 'racial crossings' were a lasting Victorian concern. But in an era of imperial expansion, when slavery was...
Routledge, 2003. — 405 p. The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire. This began with haphazard challenges to Spanish dominion, but by the end of the 18th century, the British had established a colony in Australia and had gone to the brink of war with Spain to establish trading rights in the north Pacific. These rights led to formal colonies in Vancouver Island...
London, UK: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2019. — 976 p. ; 23 illus., 53 plates. The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history. Margaret Thatcher had come to power in 1979 with a daring plan to reverse Britain's decline into shabbiness and chaos. But as...
Penguin, 2024. — 635 p. Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera is a brave, painful, urgent and timely book, that is not… about 'goodies' or 'baddies'. It is about telling the truth about a nation’s imperial past in all its ambiguity — and creating dialogue between everyone who lays claim to Britishness. If you thought Empireland was...
Penguin, 2024. — 635 p. Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera is a brave, painful, urgent and timely book, that is not… about 'goodies' or 'baddies'. It is about telling the truth about a nation’s imperial past in all its ambiguity — and creating dialogue between everyone who lays claim to Britishness. If you thought Empireland was...
Penguin, 2024. — 635 p. Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera is a brave, painful, urgent and timely book, that is not… about 'goodies' or 'baddies'. It is about telling the truth about a nation’s imperial past in all its ambiguity — and creating dialogue between everyone who lays claim to Britishness. If you thought Empireland was...
Penguin, 2024. — 635 p. Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera is a brave, painful, urgent and timely book, that is not… about 'goodies' or 'baddies'. It is about telling the truth about a nation’s imperial past in all its ambiguity — and creating dialogue between everyone who lays claim to Britishness. If you thought Empireland was...
Routledge, 2021. — 182 p. Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks and highlights the role of the Empire as a market and business-making area in a world of shrinking commerce and rising trade barriers. Drawing on a valuable range of primary sources, this book covers the period 1861–1960 and examines...
Allen and Unwin, 1932. — 334 p. Lieutenant-General Sir Mark Cubbon, KCB (1775–1861) was a British army officer with the East India Company who became the British Commissioner of Mysore state in 1834. During his tenure, he established a law and order system, introduced judicial and economic reforms and through action in all spheres of governance helped develop the economy of...
Penguin Press, 2018. — 540 p. By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade. A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep...
Penguin, 2020. — 384 p. In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa...
Penguin, 2020. — 444 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-99393-5 In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 177 p. This book is about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It offers new insight into the relationship that was nurtured between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the empire and how this has influenced the structure of international society today. Over the last four decades the Persian Gulf region has gone through...
Prabhat Prakashan, 2020. — 648 p. Veer Savarkar was the first man who called the mutiny of 1857 ‘A War of Independence’ Until his time, no Indian had dared to say so. The martyrs of 1857 are really fortunate that they got such a historian to tell their history who himself was both a historian and a creator of history. At times, we visualise Veer Savarkar coloured in the red...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 315 p. Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Indies. Yet the provincial commitment of human, financial and social capital to ventures in the East Indies has largely been disregarded. This book challenges the widely held view that British rule in India was driven primarily by...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 316 p. A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa. British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of...
Robinson, 2020. — 464 p. The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was "free" and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 216 p. The accomplishments, and initiatives, both social and economic, of Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine different British railway companies as well as developing railways in Canada, the USA, Greece, India and the Belgian Congo, he was also responsible...
New Word City, 2014. — 792 p. In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled,...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 237 p. This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different...
Manchester University Press, 2005. — 241 p. Migrant Races is a study of image, identity and mobility in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the career of Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, who migrated from India to England as a teenager in the 1880s and returned to India in 1907, the book unravels the significance of this...
Routledge, 2016. — 248 p. In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. — 208 p. Challenges recent histories of the East India Company arguing that from the beginning the company attempted to build a strong and intrusive state in India. Conflicts between Indian and British conceptions of the marketplace profoundly affected the economy and society of colonial India. Concentrating on the 1770-1820 period in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 617 p. The collective biography of a remarkable man and his family. A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his...
Routledge, 2022. — 208 p. This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills left by the British men who came in an official or economic capacity to India. It closely engages...
University of Minnesota Press, 1993. — 208 p. Allegories of Empire re-constellates a metropolitan masterpiece, Forster’s A Passage to India, within colonial discourse studies. Sharpe, a materialist feminist, is scrupulous in her use of theory to articulate nationalism, historical race-gendering, and contemporary feminist critique. Jenny Sharpe has done a great service in...
John Murray Press, 2000. — 441 p. The story of British Malaya, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain's colonial past. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 248 p. This book explores ambivalence in the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi in the fifty years following British occupation in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their contentsdirectly or subliminally reveal the values and beliefs of the individuals who commissioned and lived in them, it uses...
Columbia University Press, 2008. — 302 p. Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule,...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 256 p. How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 256 p. How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming...
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 212 p. This is a penetrating account of Anglo-Iraqi relations from 1929, when Britain decided to grant independence to Iraq, to 1941, when hostilities between the two nations came to an end. Showing how Britain tried--and failed--to maintain its political influence, economic ascendancy, and strategic position in Iraq after independence,...
Basic Books, 2009. — 800 p. In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain’s key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain’s true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover...
Basic Books, 2009. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-0-713-99426-1; 978-0-140-28984-8 In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain’s key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain’s true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 199 p. In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 295 p. In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2020. — 240 p. Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this...
William Collins, 2020. — 618 p. After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised communities had exploded in port cities. Yet in the midst of all of this, Britain struck out by sea and established...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 450 p. The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and...
I. B. Tauris, 2010. — 397 p. A far-sighted war hero or an ambitious networker promoted above his talents? Deservedly celebrated as a naval officer and confidant of world leaders, nevertheless, for some, Mountbatten's talents remain questionable. In this timely new biography, Adrian Smith paints a different and convincing picture, of an essentially modern figure of a...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 304 p. General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He was an enigma, who appeared on multiple occasions to be on the verge of winning the war for Britain, only to repeatedly fail to deliver the final blow. Howe evoked passionate reactions in the people he worked...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 336 p. A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain. In the century following Elizabeth I’s rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants," England...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008. — 400 p. An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage. The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Former army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 408 p. The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 408 p. The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical...
Hurst, 2022. — 327 р. If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal "Hul" (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 288 p. The Empire Reformed tells the story of a forgotten revolution in English America—a revolution that created not a new nation but a new kind of transatlantic empire. During the seventeenth century, England's American colonies were remote, disorganized outposts with reputations for political turmoil. Colonial subjects rebelled...
University of Calgary Press, 2018. — 338 p. Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock’s likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified...
London: Review of reviews office, 1902. — 212 p. Frontispiece The Right Hon. Cecil John Rhodes. Prefatory Note. The Last Will and Testament The Political and Religious Ideas of Mr. Rhodes His Writings His Conversations His Correspondence. His Speeches The Closing Scene
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 316 p. Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed...
London: Continuum, 2008. — 238 p. Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge...
Manchester University Press, 1998. — 256 p. This magnificent book combines cultural, social, economic and political history in a quite remarkable way. Based on fascinating primary research in India, England and Scotland it represents a new departure in the writing of imperial history. Jute and Empire follows the intriguing story of the rivalry between Calcutta and Dundee from...
Routledge, 2020. — 256 p. This book examines, for the first time, the role of Britain's Empire in far right thought between 1920 and 1980. Throughout these turbulent decades, upheaval in the Empire, combined with declining British world power, was frequently discussed and reflected upon in far right publications, as were radical policies designed to revitalise British...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 348 p. How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockwell explores this question principally via the history of the overseas engagements of key institutions that had acquired roles within Britain's imperial system: the Universities of Oxford and...
Manchester University Press, 1998. — 224 p. This anthology examines the fortunes of cricket in various colonies as the sport spread across the British Empire. It helps to explain why cricket was so successful, even in places like India, Pakistan and the West Indies where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority. It demonstrates, perhaps better than any other single...
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At a time when there is a renewed interest in Empire, this volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examines some overlooked aspects of this relationship. Topics include the unconventional retellings of the gospel story of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson and Raja Rammohun Roy, and the fate...
Lexington Books, 2019. — 282 p. In the Indian Army of the British Raj, the officer corps was "reserved for the governing race"- in other words, the British. Only in 1917, a mere thirty years before India won its freedom, did the Raj permit Indians into the Army's officer corps, thus slowly beginning its Indianization. Yet it is often forgotten that this decision was the...
Manchester University Press, 2010. — 208 p. Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of...
Routledge, 2011. — 268 p. The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.
SAGE Publications, 2014. — 270 p. In the closing years of the British rule in India, a secret plan was conceived and discussed at the highest circles for a crown colony comprising the hill areas of North East India and the tribal areas of Burma. The plan could not be implemented largely because it came up for discussion in the closing years of the British rule over India. The...
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 304 p. This book explores the development, character, and legacy of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Liberal internationalism provided a powerful way of theorising and imagining international relations, and it dominated well-informed political discourse at a time when Britain...
Cornell University Press, 1994. — 255 p. Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the...
Routledge, 2008. — 232 p. This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms, the book focuses on the movement of people of the lower...
Duke University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 245 p. This biography is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. It tells the previously untold story of two British aristocrats, detailing the drama of their personal lives and examining their rule in the two colonies, India and Australia, in which they served. It raises issues of population, immigration, social mobility, and...
Adlard Coles, 2018. — 256 p. For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings - a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represent a fascinating and inspiring perspective from...
Adlard Coles, 2018. — 256 p. For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings - a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represent a fascinating and inspiring perspective from...
I.B. Tauris, 2007. — 255 p. In its heyday, the British Empire started and ended with the port of Southampton, yet the history of this most imperial of cities has been curiously neglected. In this authoritative account, Miles Taylor looks at the modern history of the city and port of Southampton through the lens of empire. He examines some of the major international celebrities...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 388 p. An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837. In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately...
Boydell Press, 1998. — 349 p. Presented in memory of the distinguished historian Philip Lawson, this collection of essays examines the domestic and colonial history of Britain in the period between the Hanoverian succession and the early 19th century. Beginning with two historiographical surveys, the contributions go on to discuss many of the issues at the forefront of...
Aleph Book Company, 2016. — 360 p. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s "Conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history". He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of...
Aleph Book Company, 2016. — 360 p. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s "Conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history". He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. – 948 p.
The publication of the present volume completes the original project set out by the editors of volume i. They envisaged eight volumes, of which the first three would relate the general history of British oversea expansion and imperial policy, two volumes, iv and v, the history of British India, and the remaining three the...
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1905. — 60 p. This volume is of far more importance than the Decline and Fall. It was while writing these cheerful constructive Essays that the idea occurred to the author of predicting the fall of Great Britain if her citizens did not learn to take an enlightened individual interest in the civic, religious, and military...
Hamden: Archon Books, 1977. — 147 p. The idea of revolution in Britain hovered in the background during this lively period. The authors explores various political ideas of the times and their effects on British life. Introduction The Jacobin threat Luddites, Hampden Clubs and the Pentrich rebels The union societies, Peterloo and the Scottish radicals The reform of Parliament:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 242 p. This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting. Angela...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 368 p. Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms of the two world wars, was subsequently dismantled, and then...
Routledge, 2005. — 392 p. The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture,...
Pluto Press, 1999. — 145 p. In this reassessment of British imperialism, Willie Thompson examines the underlying social, economic and political forces that facilitated expansion during the key period of 1870-1914. Thompson emphasizes that the British Empire was first and foremost established by predatory methods to fulfill the financial goals of imperial power without regard to...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 338 p. Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century. War forced the suspension of normal electoral politics, and exerted considerable extra...
Palala Press, 2015. — 128 p. Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–1859. Begun in Meerut by Indian local troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.
Routledge, 2011. — 288 p. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion,...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 430 p. In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 137 p. This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century. In this period, Britain had developed from the world’s first industrial nation into the ‘Workshop of the World’ but how were technological innovations translated and...
Routledge, 2021. — 248 p. This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin’s career to link the...
Duke University Press, 1999. — 310 p. This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices—as well as in...
Henry Holt and Company, 2010. — 508 p. The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded.A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example...
Pluto Press, 2020. — 192 p. Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, James Trafford develops the notion of internal colonies, arguing that...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 304 p. In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company consolidated its territorial power in the conquered province of Bengal by co-opting and...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 295 p. Robert Travers’ analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 259 p. Beyond Sovereignty explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 352 p. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963-1965, which provided the pinnacle of his career and yet also his ultimate failure. Trevaskis's imperial credentials were impeccable. He was a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia, followed by service in the Rhodesian Regiment in World War II, District...
Hambledon Continuum, 2009. — 264 p.
For almost two hundred years, Britain dominated the world, its naval supremacy enabling it to acquire a vast empire, including India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Africa. Although, it could not prevent its American colonies from becoming independent, its industrial and commercial power helped it to keep its scattered possessions...
Routledge, 2011. — 268 p. Britain's often rather ad hoc approach to colonial expansion in the nineteenth century resulted in a variety of imaginative solutions designed to exert control over an increasingly diverse number of territories. One such instrument of government was the political officer. Created initially by the East India Company to manage relations with the princely...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 232 p. This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer...
Brill, 2023. — 224 p. — (Studies in Christian Mission 58). Pacifying Missions provides the first sustained examination of peace and missionary work in the context of the British Empire. It interrogates diverse missionary projects from Africa and the Pacific region, unfolding a variegated world of ideas, discourses, and actions. The volume yields compelling evidence for a...
Routledge, 2004. — 248 p. First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume V, entitled Warfare, Expansion and Resistance, raises a number of questions connected with the Company's growing military role, and examines some of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 316 p. This first academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful mining companies ever to have been established in Africa. Based on new documentary sources, notably...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 320 p. An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Against the backdrop of World War I, reports of massacre, atrocity, genocide and exile sparked the largest global humanitarian response up to that date. Britain and its empire - the most powerful internationalist institutional force at the time - played a...
Routledge, 2021. — 336 p. The relations of Great Britain and its Dominions significantly influenced the development of the British Empire in the late 19th and the first third of the 20th century. The mutual attitude to the constitutional issues that Dominion and British leaders have continually discussed at Colonial and Imperial Conferences respectively was one of the main...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 320 p. An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light. In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded “in a fit of absence of mind.” He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 256 p. Examining the intervening period between the end of the Seven Years' War and the emergence of the American Revolution,Envisioning Empire rethinks the conception of the British Empire in the 18th century. With exceptional geographical scope, this book shines new light on actors and events in many imperial arenas, including West Africa, North...
Ebury Press, 2023. — 1203 р. — ISBN-13 978-1529109955 The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the expanding British Empire frequently found itself frustrated by the power and tenacious...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 310 p. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 318 p. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 280 p. This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time. It explores debates concerning the relationship between church, state and people, the nature of the various post-Reformation settlements in the British Atlantic and how they impacted on each...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 360 p. A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire - the Amritsar Massacre - to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account, Kim A. Wagner details the perspectives of...
Routledge, 2022. — 254 p. This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia Company. Using both archival and secondary sources, this monograph fills in some of the knowledge gaps...
Routledge, 2022. — 254 p. This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia Company. Using both archival and secondary sources, this monograph fills in some of the knowledge gaps...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 288 p. This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. In a departure from previous scholarship on the South Asian presence in Britain, Wainwright emphasizes the importance of class as the...
Originally published John W. Parker, London, 1849. This edition published: Batoche Books Limited, 2001. - 154p. The survey upon history of british colonization with questions on political economy.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 272 p. Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery in India – the costly, but often...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 328 p. Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world....
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 348 p. On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the...
Routledge, 2021. — 301 p. A century after the Armistice and the associated peace agreements that formally ended the Great War, many issues pertaining to the UK and its empire are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Accordingly, this volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to better understanding the post-Armistice Empire across a broad spectrum of disciplines, geographies...
Manchester University Press, 2001. — 254 p. This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 347 p. In this unique study, Carol Watts argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cultural life, an awareness made particularly manifest in the sense of belonging to community, family and nation. Furthermore, she discusses global warfare as prompting a radical re-imagining of the...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 208 p. This fascinating and highly useful book examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and controversy surrounding the subject, and how different generations of...
The Boydell Press, 2007. — 216 p. John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm...
Boydell and Brewer, 2012. — 205 p. This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the East India Company's reign as the sovereign power in India. This was a most turbulent period for British commerce with India. The period began with the renewal of the East India Company's...
James Currey, 2020. — 260 p. As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyika into the largest mechanized groundnut farm in the world. It was to prove the largest, most expensive...
Pen & Sword History, 2017. — 256 p. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers or fathers. Very little about them is recorded from the earlier years, about the remarkable journeys that they made and what drove them to travel those huge distances. Some kept journals, others...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 240 p. This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said’s classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said’s analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives, it uses private papers, letters,...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 240 p. This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said’s classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said’s analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives, it uses private papers, letters,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2008, -271p.
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 262 p. Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely unexplored. Empire of Influence traces the contentious process whereby the East India Company established a system of indirect rule in India in the first decades of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 462 p. Journalist and traveller Andrew Wilson (1831–1881) was born in India to colonial missionaries. Educated in Europe, he later edited the China Mail in Hong Kong, and the Bombay Times. This, his best known work, was published in 1868, and recounts the suppression of the Taiping uprising in 1863–1864 by Colonel Charles G. ('Chinese')...
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 575 p. For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain's East India Company ruled enclaves of land in South Asia for a century and a half before that. For these 300 years, conquerors and governors projected themselves as heroes and improvers. The British public were sold an image of British...
PublicAffairs, 2016. — 584 p. The popular image of the British Raj - an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights - chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 372 p. This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ the philosopher’s new science of sociology to dismantle the British Empire. With...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 264 p. This book traces the history of England's first century of encounters with America. Arguing that the 1500s represent a discrete and influential period in this relationship, it covers a crucial chapter in the larger history of the development of the British Empire. The march of British imperialism was by no means inevitable or...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 264 p. This book traces the history of England's first century of encounters with America. Arguing that the 1500s represent a discrete and influential period in this relationship, it covers a crucial chapter in the larger history of the development of the British Empire. The march of British imperialism was by no means inevitable or...
University of California Press, 2021. — 274 p. While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the nineteenth century. Officials and...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 756 p. The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 336 p. Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links of patronage between cosmopolitan writers...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 258 p. Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century. Ranging from the fall of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 237 p. — (Societies at War). For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simply as 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out of the war but one of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1902. — 377 p. This history is not a 'Manual,' i.e., a digest of the general body of facts relative to Colonial history. Events have been dwelt upon, or passed over, as they serve, or do not serve, to illustrate the broad underlying principles which from time to time governed British Expansion. A manual of information makes a bad text-book for a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 252 p. An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly in new south Wales with its transition from a convict colony to a free society.
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 420 p. Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833–25 March 1913) was an bravest Anglo-Irish officer. The number of letters after his name indicates just how glittering was his career. What first made him a household name – he is the original ‘Modern Major-General’ – was campaigning in Africa....
London: Printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, under the Royal-Exchange Publication Year: 1770
Containing, An Historical, Political, and Commercial View of the English Settlements; including all the Countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris.
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 225 p. Citizenship, nation, empire investigates the extent to which popular imperialism influenced the teaching of history between 1870 and 1930. It is the first book-length study to trace the substantial impact of educational psychology on the teaching of history, probing its impact on textbooks, literacy primers and teacher-training...
SAGE Publications, 2005. — 332 p. Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the province`s position as the `sword arm` of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 359 p. An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African resistance at this time.
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 352 p. For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead...
М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 1999. — 217 с. — ISBN 5-201-00521-7. Взгляды буржуазных радикалов на переселенческие колонии. Радикалы и империя на Востоке 1815—1833. Позиция радикалов по вопросам британской политики в Азии 1833—1853 гг. Либеральная партия и имперские концепции в 50-х - 70-х гг. Имперская политика либералов и переселенческие колонии в 1868—1874 гг....
Пер. В. Степановой. — Москва: КоЛибри, 2023. — 464 с. — ISBN 978-5-389-21049-3. Первое в своем роде полномасштабное исследование партнерства одного из самых великих пиратов и королевы Елизаветы - уникального сотрудничества мореплавателя и монарха, которое привело к образованию Британской империи. В своей работе прославленный историк-биограф, автор научно-популярных книг о...
М.: ACT: ACT Москва, 2010. — 957, [3] с.: 24 ил. — ISBN 978-5-17-065002-6; ISBN 978-5-403-03364-0. Книга Пирса Брендона и по названию, и по содержанию перекликается с эпохальным трудом Эдуарда Гиббона «История упадка и разрушения Римской империи». И это не случайно: британцы, стремясь к завоеванию мира, всегда оглядывались на Древний Рим. Они нашли ключ к обретению истинного...
Пер. с англ. М. В. Жуковой. — М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. — 983 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-065002-6 (ООО «Изд-во АСТ»). — ISBN 978-5-403-03364-0 (ООО Изд-во «АСТ Москва»). Книга Пирса Брендона и по названию, и по содержанию перекликается с эпохальным трудом Эдуарда Гиббона «История упадка и разрушения Римской империи». И это не случайно: британцы, стремясь к...
М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. — 983 с. Книга Пирса Брендона и по названию, и по содержанию перекликается с эпохальным трудом Эдуарда Гиббона «История упадка и разрушения Римской империи». И это не случайно: британцы, стремясь к завоеванию мира, всегда оглядывались на Древний Рим. Они нашли ключ к обретению истинного могущества на руинах Рима. Но там же следует искать и причины...
М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. — 983 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-065002-6 (ООО «Изд-во АСТ»). — ISBN: 978-5-403-03364-0. Книга Пирса Брендона и по названию, и по содержанию перекликается с эпохальным трудом Эдуарда Гиббона «История упадка и разрушения Римской империи». И это не случайно: британцы, стремясь к завоеванию мира, всегда оглядывались на Древний Рим....
Навчальний посібник з курсу „Країнознавство” для студентів вищих навчальних закладів. — Львів: Центр Європи, 2003. — 128 с. — ISBN: 996-7022-55-2. Книга є першим україномовним посібником з історії та країнознавства Великобританії. Розкриваються особливості політичного й соціально-економічного розвитку з XVI ст. по 1918 р., дається характеристика відомим політичним діячам,...
Екатеринбург: Волот, 2010. - 188 с.
Учебные материалы освещают процесс зарождения, расцвета и упадка Британской империи, характеризуют оснеовные тенденции её территориально-административного, торгово-экономического и социокультурного развития, а также формирование имперской идентичности британцев и её эволюцию во второй половине XX в.
Екатеринбург: Волот, 2010. - 188 с.
ISBN 978-5-89088-045-1
Содержание:
Введение
Возникновение Британской империи (конец XV в. -1780-е гг. )
Формирование экономического ядра империи
Английские торговые компании
Общество, миграционные процессы и встреча с «другим»
Английский приключенческий роман и представления о «сказочных странах»
Британия - «владычица морей»...
Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2012. — 137 с. Учебное пособие, подготовленное кафедрой новой и новейшей истории Уральского федерального университета, посвящено исследованию проблем взаимодействия культур, восприятия «другого» и отражает актуальные методологические подходы в изучении межкультурного диалога в процессе глобализации современного мира. Для...
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2019. — 200 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-2657-0. Учебное пособие посвящено истории Британской колониальной империи, рассматриваются основные тенденции ее территориально-административного, торгово-экономического и социокультурного развития, а также процессы формирования...
Минск: Белорусская наука, 2007. — 192 с.
В исследовании дается характеристика процесса развития имперской идеи в Великобритании во второй половине XIX в., исходя из выделения ее основных аспектов – экономического, политического, культурологического. Определяется влияние изменений во внутриполитическом развитии Великобритании и положении страны в системе международных отношений на...
Челябинск: Энциклопедия, 2015. — 220 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91274-275-0. Монография посвящена слабо изученной в российской историографии проблеме модернизации Британской империи в середине XIX века. В центре внимания работы находятся сюжеты экономических, политических, идейных и социокультурных превращений, рассматриваемых сквозь призму влияния либеральной идеологии. Наряду с...
Челябинск: ЧГУ, 1996. — 312 с. ISBN: 5-230-19975-Х. Монография доктора исторических наук В. В. Грудзинского посвящена проблеме трансформации Британской империи на одном из ключевых этапов её развития. Исследование является, по сути, первым по данной теме в российской историографии. Главное внимание в книге уделено идейно-политической стороне тех усилий, которые были...
Челябинск: ЧГУ, 1996. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-230-19975-Х. Монография доктора исторических наук В. В. Грудзинского посвящена проблеме трансформации Британской империи на одном из ключевых этапов её развития. Исследование является, по сути, первым по данной теме в российской историографии. Главное внимание в книге уделено идейно-политической стороне тех усилий, которые были...
Перевод: Екатерина Половцева - М.: Вече, 2010. - 438 с., ил.
В конце XIX века внимание всего мира было приковано к противостоянию крошечных бурских государств и огромной Британской империи. Тогда на юге Африки шла война, которая стала прообразом будущих мировых конфликтов. Пулеметы, магазинные винтовки, бронепоезда и скорострельные пушки - почти все атрибуты современной войны...
Перевод: Екатерина Половцева - М.: Вече, 2010. - 438 с., ил.
В конце XIX века внимание всего мира было приковано к противостоянию крошечных бурских государств и огромной Британской империи. Тогда на юге Африки шла война, которая стала прообразом будущих мировых конфликтов. Пулеметы, магазинные винтовки, бронепоезда и скорострельные пушки - почти все атрибуты современной войны...
М.: Вече, 2010. - 438 с.
В конце XIX века внимание всего мира было приковано к противостоянию крошечных бурских государств и огромной Британской империи. Тогда на юге Африки шла война, которая стала прообразом будущих мировых конфликтов. Пулеметы, магазинные винтовки, бронепоезда и скорострельные пушки - почти все атрибуты современной войны прошли "обкатку" на полях Трансвааля...
Мн.: Харвест, 2004. – 400 с. Первый вооружённый конфликт XX века – англо-бурская война 1899–1902 годов – наглядно продемонстрировал всему миру наступление эпохи нового поколения войн. Плоды технического прогресса – автоматическое стрелковое оружие, скорострельная полевая артиллерия и бронепоезда – заставили европейских военных стратегов забыть аксиомы недавнего прошлого. Война...
Новая и новейшая история: Межвузовский сборник. — Выпуск 21. — Саратов, 2004. — С.151—169. Данная статья одного из ведущих специалистов в сфере отечественного англоведения посвящена рассмотрению важнейшим проблем развития и модернизации концептуального поля имперской идеологии в викторианской Англии.
М.: Наука, 1977. — 256 с. Монография представляет собой серию очерков, раскрывающих важнейшие черты и стороны английской колониальной политики 1830-1850-х годов, политическую борьбу господствующих классов в этой области, некоторые направления английской экономики, политику в переселенческих колониях. Заключительные очерки рисуют колониальную идеологию и характеризуют отношение...
М.: Мысль, 1967. — 280 с.
На много километров тянутся развалины Лондона, заброшенной столицы ушедшей в прошлое великой империи. Повсюду упадок и разрушение. Безлюдные улицы поросли густой травой. Пустые дома зияют мертвыми глазницами окон. На широкой Темзе, когда-то шумной и полной движения, тишина и безлюдье. По пустынным улицам бредут три человека: два американских туриста и...
М.: Мысль, 1967. — 279 с. К читателю. Империя в зените. Роковые письмена. В горниле войны. Начало конца. Волна поднимается вновь. Крушение. Раздумья на обломках империи. Приложения. Использованная литература.
М.: Наука, 1964. - 117 с. Среди многих слов, которые от частого употребления потускнели, подобно металлической монете, стало менее весомым и слово «колониализм». Когда говорят о колониализме, может возникнуть впечатление, что речь идет о чем-то таком, что осталось в прошлом, возможно, даже в далеком прошлом. Однако это совсем не так: колониализм это не только прошлое, но и...
М.: Наука, 1964. - 117 с. Среди многих слов, которые от частого употребления потускнели, подобно металлической монете, стало менее весомым и слово «колониализм». Когда говорят о колониализме, может возникнуть впечатление, что речь идет о чем-то таком, что осталось в прошлом, возможно, даже в далеком прошлом. Однако это совсем не так: колониализм это не только прошлое, но и...
М.: Московский институт энергобезопасности и энергосбережения, 2006. - 174 с.
ISBN: 5-98016-014-0
Монография посвящена изучению динамики властных структур Британской империи во второй половине XIX века; рассматривается южноафриканский опыт британского имперского строительства.
Книга предназначена специалистам по истории Великобритании, а также всем интересующимся феноменом...
Тамбов: Тамбовский государственный университет им. Г.Р. Державина, 2003. — 212 с. Диссертация на соискание учёной степени кандидата исторических наук. Объектом исследования в данной диссертации является система управления переселенческих колоний в Южной Африке (преимущественно – Капской колонии), рассматриваемая в контексте трансформации имперской административно-политической...
Пер. с англ. И. П. Ястребовой ; Ред. и предисл. В. Ф. Семенова. — Москва : Издательство иностранной литературы, 1960. — 563 с. Книга Кемп-Ашраф написана с большим чувством, с любовью ко всем трудящимся и угнетенным, с верой в торжество прогрессивных сил и в светлое будущее человечества. В настоящее время, когда колониализм доживает свои последние дни, когда на наших глазах...
Монография. — Волгоград: Издательство ВолГУ, 2012. — 332 с. Монография посвящена одной из малоизученных проблем отечественного англоведения - становлению административной системы Британской империи в XVII—XVIII веках. Большое внимание уделяется вопросам взаимоотношений метрополии и колоний, связям английских политических реалий и колониальной политики, роли государства в...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 256 с. — (Хроники военных сражений) — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4340-2. Известный исследователь Джулиан Корбетт в своей работе, посвященной британскому военно-морскому флоту XVI-XIX веков, рассказывает об особенностях профессиональной подготовки, военных и политических событиях, позволивших Великобритании надолго занять лидирующую позицию в военных...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 256 с. — (Хроники военных сражений) — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4340-2. Известный исследователь Джулиан Корбетт в своей работе, посвященной британскому военно-морскому флоту XVI-XIX веков, рассказывает об особенностях профессиональной подготовки, военных и политических событиях, позволивших Великобритании надолго занять лидирующую позицию в военных...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 256 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4340-2. Известный исследователь Джулиан Корбетт в своей работе, посвященной британскому военно-морскому флоту XVI-XIX веков, рассказывает об особенностях профессиональной подготовки, военных и политических событиях, позволивших Великобритании надолго занять лидирующую позицию в военных...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1956. - 227 c.
Монография посвящена английской политическому и экономическому влиянию в Тибете во второй половине XIX - начале XX вв. и постепенному уменьшению роли Англии после Синьхайской революции 1911 года.
365 страниц. От автора: Эта книга не претендует на беспристрастность. Прошу рассматривать ее как заметки сугубо личного свойства, основанные на отдельных воспоминаниях. Я не имел возможности делать сколько-нибудь систематические записи: если бы я бесстрастно собирал гербарий впечатлений, в то время как арабы сражались, это стало бы изменой моему долгу перед ними. Любой из моих...
М.: АСТ, АСТ Москва, 2009, — 657 стр. (638, [2] с. : 16 л. ил. )
Сканирование и обработка: Vitautus & Kali
Аннотация к книге "1759. Год завоевания Британией мирового господства"
1759 год. Судьбоносная дата в истории Великобритании. Год, когда решалось, какой из двух сильнейших стран Европы - Англии или Франции - суждено стать "царицей морей" и безоговорочным лидером на...
Москва: АСТ, 2009. — 638, [2] с. : 16 л. ил. 1759 год. Судьбоносная дата в истории Великобритании. Год, когда решалось, какой из двух сильнейших стран Европы - Англии или Франции - суждено стать "царицей морей" и безоговорочным лидером на континенте. Казалось, силы равны… Но за один только 1759 год англичанам удалось вытеснить французов из Индии, ограничить их влияние в бассейне...
Москва: АСТ, 2009. — 638 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-036988-1. 1759 год. Судьбоносная дата в истории Великобритании. Год, когда решалось, какой из двух сильнейших стран Европы - Англии или Франции - суждено стать "царицей морей" и безоговорочным лидером на континенте. Казалось, силы равны… Но за один только 1759 год англичанам удалось вытеснить французов из...
Монография. — Тбилиси: Издательство Тбилисского университета, 1998.
В книге рассмотрены деятельность английской Ост-Индской компании и английское завоевание Индии в качестве процесса соприкосновения цивилизаций Запада и Востока, который представлен как закономерный результат исторического развития Англии и Индии.
У истоков создания английской Ост-Индской компании....
Монография. — Курган: Изд-во Курганского гос. ун-та, 2019. — 592 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4217-0515-4. В монографии на основе источников и исторической литературы рассматривается эволюция политической системы Великобритании XIX веке. Показаны перипетии становления британской парламентской модели, развитие партийной системы, роли отдельных политиков в становлении политических институтов...
СПб.: Типография акционерного общества Брокгауз — Ефрон, 1902. — 216 с. Значение колониальной империи Англии и характер английской колониальной политики. Пролог английской колонизации: мореплаватели XVI века и первые попытки колонизации С. Америки. Взгляд на колонизаторскую деятельность англичан в XVII и XVIII веках. Причины и следствия американской революции. Очерк развития и...
СПб.: Брокгауз и Эфрон, 1902. — 248 с. Мижуев Павел Григорьевич (1861-1932?) - писатель, педагог, публицист. Получил образование в Морском училище. Преподавал в 6-й Петербургской гимназии и различных вузах Санкт-Петербурга. В 1902-1924 г.г. - библиотекарь Петербургского технологического института, одного из наиболее престижных и передовых вузов империи. Занимался вопросами...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 213 с. В книге исследуются причины, цели, методы и результаты империалистической политики Англии в Южной Африке в конце XIX — начале XX в., положение зарождавшегося африканского промышленного пролетариата, причины его освободительной борьбы, отношение держав к захвату бурских республик Англией. Экспансионистская политика Англии в бурских республиках в конце...
Отв. ред. С. Е. Федоров. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2015. — 326 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-9906936-8-5. Монография рассматривает феномен цивильного права в Англии раннестюартовского периода, историю и структуру связанных с ним институтов и политико-правовые концепции английских цивилистов в контексте корпоративного конфликта с судами общего права. Публикация рассчитана на...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1991. — 190 с. Исследование колониальной экспансии Великобритании в Азии и Африке в последней трети XIX в в тесной связи с анализом социально-экономических и политических процессов в метрополии, причин и мотивов, идеологии экспансионизма. Показаны направления экспансии, характеризуются взгляды государственных деятелей и...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1991. — 190 с. Исследование колониальной экспансии Великобритании в Азии и Африке в последней трети XIX в в тесной связи с анализом социально-экономических и политических процессов в метрополии, причин и мотивов, идеологии экспансионизма. Показаны направления экспансии, характеризуются взгляды государственных деятелей и...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1991. — 190 с. Исследование колониальной экспансии Великобритании в Азии и Африке в последней трети XIX в в тесной связи с анализом социально-экономических и политических процессов в метрополии, причин и мотивов, идеологии экспансионизма. Показаны направления экспансии, характеризуются взгляды государственных деятелей и...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1991. — 190 с. Исследование колониальной экспансии Великобритании в Азии и Африке в последней трети XIX в в тесной связи с анализом социально-экономических и политических процессов в метрополии, причин и мотивов, идеологии экспансионизма. Показаны направления экспансии, характеризуются взгляды государственных деятелей и...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 99 с.
Автор, публицист Джордж Пэдмор, потомок негров-рабов, опубликовал ряд книг, разоблачающих эксплуатацию и порабощение народов Африки британским империализмом. В данной книге Пэдмор собрал обильный фактический материал, на основе которого он анализирует экономическое положение каждого из африканских владений Англии, жизненный...
Reitz, D., Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War :: By Deneys Reitz with a preface by General the Right Honourable J.C. Smuts. . London: Faber and Faber, 1945. - 137 p.
Монография. — М.: ЦИОГНИС, 2018. — 528 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9500762-5-1. Эволюция британской колониальной системы представляет собой важную составляющую мирового исторического процесса Нового и Новейшего времени. В первой половине XX века Британская империя являлась главным источником формирования глобализационных процессов, в значительной степени обусловивших особенности...
М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2013. — 560 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-42661-2, 978-5-17-077808-9. Как удалось обитателям дождливого островка в Северной Атлантике построить, а после потерять империю, над которой «не заходило солнце»? Что было целью колониальной политики британцев: грабеж – либо «экспорт свободы и порядка»? Есть ли в XXI веке спрос на империализм? Провокационная книга Ниала...
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Введение.
Пропаганда колониальной экспансии в XVI — начале XVII века.
Ранние колониальные экспедиции и начало колониальных войн.
Методы колониального проникновения.
Заключение.
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