Writing imperial histories

✍ Scribed by Andrew Thompson (editor)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 314
Series: Studies in Imperialism; 109
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Complete list of the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism Series, 1985–2013
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
LIist of figures and tables
Introduction
The MacKenziean moment in retrospect (or how one hundred volumes bloomed)
The power of culture and the cultures of power: John MacKenzie and the study of imperialism
Sex matters: sexuality and the writing of colonial history
Exploration, the environment and empire
Spatial concepts and the historical geographies of British colonialism
Policing the colonial crowd: patterns of policing in the European empires during the depression years
Whatever happened to the Third British Empire? Empire, Nation Redux
Media, India and the Raj
Empires, diasporas and cultural circulation
Decolonisation, space and power: immigration, welfare and housing in Britain and France, 1945–1974
Afterword
Index

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