Empires in Perspective
About the Book Series
This important series examines a diverse range of imperial histories from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Drawing on works of political, social, economic and cultural history, the history of science and political theory, the series encourages methodological pluralism and does not impose any particular conception of historical scholarship. While focused on particular aspects of empire, works published also seek to address wider questions on the study of imperial history.
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870: John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
1st Edition
By Gareth Knapman
June 28, 2018
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 ...
Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910
1st Edition
By Robert Ivermee
May 25, 2017
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 ...
Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920
1st Edition
By Ben Maddison
December 22, 2016
Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can...
A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire
1st Edition
By J Lee Thompson
January 20, 2016
When Alfred Milner was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our common country'. This is the study of Milner, which takes his politics, or 'constructive' imperialism as its primary theme. It also discovers a group of young female supporters of his vision....
Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650–1725
1st Edition
By Timothy Paul Grady
January 20, 2016
Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the first to tell the full ...
Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Northwest Passage
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédéric Regard
January 20, 2016
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture....
Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
1st Edition
By David Lowe
January 20, 2016
Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures....
Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
1st Edition
By Nicole Starbuck
January 20, 2016
This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition’s stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, ...
Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936
1st Edition
By Allison Drew
January 20, 2016
Sidney Bunting's life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. Drawing on archival material, including the Bunting family papers and records of Bunting's Oxford years, this work ...
British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914
1st Edition
By Casper Andersen
January 20, 2016
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....
British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédéric Regard
January 20, 2016
Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other....
Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
1st Edition
By Bruce Buchan
January 20, 2016
A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the ...