Studies in Imperialism Series

168 primary works • 168 total works
Manchester University Press
Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880 - 1960
It has been said that the British Empire, on which…
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Imperialism and Popular Culture
3.41
· 22 Ratings · published 1986 · 2 editions
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the do…
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At Duty's Call: A Study in Obsolete Patriotism
1988 Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-2395…
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الطب الإمبريالي والمجتمعات المحلية
In recent years it has become apparent that the in…
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The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism
This study assesses the significance of the huntin…
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Imperialism and Juvenile Literature
3.00
· 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1989 · 1 edition
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Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience
3.39
· 41 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1990 · 7 editions
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cu…
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Air Power And Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939
Imperialism without violence cannot be imagined. T…
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Asia In Western Fiction
4.20
· 5 Ratings · published 1990 · 5 editions
Offering insights into racial and cultural stereot…
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Popular Imperialism and the Military, 1850 - 1950
This collection of essays is concerned with the in…
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The Language of Empire: Myths and Metaphors of Popular Imperialism, 1880-1918
During the last thirty years of the nineteenth cen…
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Unfit For Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars
Over 5 million service personnel were demobilized …
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Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism Through Children's Books and Magazines
An introduction to the imperial images of the Indi…
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Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-49
Using archival materials newly available in China …
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Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700-1964
This book explores the ways in which armies and ar…
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Gender and imperialism
3.73
· 11 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions
This book marks an important new intervention into…
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Imperial cities: Landscape, display and identity
3.44
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 4 editions
The fifteen essays in this book explore the influe…
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New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953
New Frontiers brings together scholars in the hist…
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Science and society in southern Africa
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn f…
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British culture and the end of empire
3.38
· 13 Ratings · published 2001 · 4 editions
This book is the first major attempt to examine th…
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Imperial persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British advertising
The first book to provide an historical survey of …
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Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, c.1880–1922
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of…
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West Indian intellectuals in Britain
4.25
· 4 Ratings · published 2003 · 7 editions
The first comprehensive discussion of the major Ca…
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Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
Considers how notions of Britishness were construc…
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Law, History, Colonialism: The Reach of Empire
Ranging across law, history, and postcolonial stud…
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Colonial Connections 1815-1845: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government
This ground-breaking book challenges standard inte…
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Sex, politics and empire: A postcolonial geography
Colonial governments, institutions and companies r…
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Rethinking settler colonialism: History and memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa
Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long…
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The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century
This book focuses on British efforts to suppress t…
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At the end of the line: Colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945–80
Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the …
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Engendering whiteness: White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865
Engendering whiteness represents a comparative ana…
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Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge
African research played a major role in transformi…
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The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772–1914
The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nati…
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Ireland, India and empire: Indo–Irish radical connections, 1919–64
Offering a fresh new perspective on the history of…
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'The better class' of Indians: Social rank, Imperial identity, and South Asians in Britain 1858–1914
This is the first book-length study to focus prima…
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From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918
Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection b…
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British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The inconsequential possession
This book explores the tensions underlying British…
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Museums and empire: Natural history, human cultures and colonial identities
This is the first book to examine the origins and …
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Ending British rule in Africa: Writers in a common cause
4.67
· 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished …
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Borders and conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first fu…
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Air empire: British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39
3.00
· 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 1 edition
Air Empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a…
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Representing Africa: Landscape, exploration and empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870
Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in …
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Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937–66
This original and exciting book examines the proce…
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Child, nation, race and empire: Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915
Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, i…
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Materials and medicine: Trade, conquest and therapeutics in the eighteenth century
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century…
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European Empires and the People: Popular responses to imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy
This is the first book to survey in comparative fo…
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Labour and the politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the present
This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-natio…
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Conflict, Politics and Proselytism: Methodist missionaries in colonial and postcolonial Burma, 1887–1966
This book is a study of the ambitions, activities …
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Imperial spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia
Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential …
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Servants of the empire: The Irish in Punjab 1881–1921
Punjab, ‘the pride of British India’, attracted th…
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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation: Passengers, pilots, publicity
Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviat…
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Genteel women: Empire and domestic material culture, 1840–1910
During the latter half of the nineteenth century a…
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Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in Bri…
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The Arctic in the British Imagination 1818-1914
Victorian Britain was fascinated by the Arctic and…
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Heroic Imperialists in Africa: The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870 – 1939
From the height of 'New Imperialism' until the Sec…
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Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750 - 1820
This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing…
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The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine, and Resistance in the British Empire
Much has been written about time in Western societ…
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Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlander…
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The Victorian soldier in Africa
3.75
· 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 7 editions
Available in paperback for the first time, The Vic…
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The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society
By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-wa…
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Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History
3.82
· 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 5 editions
From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Chocolat…
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Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya
Race and Empire tells the story of a short-lived b…
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Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865
Engendering Whiteness draws on a wide variety of s…
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Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge
This is the first volume to examine the range and …
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Missionaries and their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India
Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and ent…
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Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
This book examines the formation of colonial socia…
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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97
3.78
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 5 editions
This book examines the British cultural engagement…
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Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies
This wide-ranging collection explores the formatio…
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The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society
This anthology examines the fortunes of cricket in…
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Mistress of everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds
Mistress of everything examines how indigenous peo…
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Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji
Migrant Races is a study of image, identity and mo…
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Emigration From Scotland Between the Wars: Opportunity or Exile?
Emigration from Scotland has always been very high…
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The South African War Reappraised
4.00
· 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 2 editions
The South African War was a catalyst in the creati…
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The Empire in One City?: Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past
From the late eighteenth century to the early twen…
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Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were t…
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Welsh missionaries and British imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in north-east India
In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Th…
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Silk and Empire
4.00
· 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 5 editions
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion…
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Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire
This magnificant book combines cultural, social, e…
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Flagships of Imperialism: The P & O Company and the Politics of Empire from Its Origins to 1867
Flagships of Imperialism is the first scholarly mo…
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Gendered transactions: The white woman in colonial India, c.1820-1930
This book seeks to capture the complex experience …
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Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movements of Emigrants, 1600-2000
This book analyzes the motives, experiences and im…
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Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690 - c.1820
Human capital and empire compares the role of Scot…
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Beyond the State: The colonial medical service in British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel sec…
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Imperialism and Music: Britain 1876-1953
This is the first book to consider the relationshi…
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Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914
The age of steam was the age of Britain’s global m…
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Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging
This is the first book-length study of the ideolog…
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Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
Book by Bliss, Robert M.
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British civic society at the end of empire: Decolonisation, globalisation, and international responsibility
This book is about the impact of decolonisation on…
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Oceania Under Steam: Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870-1914
The age of steam was the age of Britain’s global m…
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Knowledge, mediation and empire: James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
James Tod (1782-1835) spent twenty-two years in In…
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Savage worlds: German encounters abroad, 1798–1914
With an eye to recovering the experiences of those…
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Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930
4.14
· 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930 a…
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Benefits Bestowed?: Education and British Imperialism
This volume concentrates on the processes and prac…
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Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
This it the first full study about the biggest and…
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Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century
Mobility was central to imperialism, from the huma…
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Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the' Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century
Colonial masculinity places masculinity at the cen…
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Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, i…
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The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
This is a detailed study of the various ways in wh…
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Empire careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 1854–1949
This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 …
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Making Imperial Mentalities: Socialisation and British Imperialism
This book discusses the way in which those born in…
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