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.
India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815
1st Edition
By Kate Marsh
January 20, 2016
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, ...
Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770
1st Edition
By Charles Ivar McGrath
January 20, 2016
Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two ...
Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
1st Edition
By Preeti Nijhar
January 20, 2016
Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly populace. This title uses material from both British Parliamentary Papers and colonial archive material to provide evidence of legal change ...
Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Poonam Bala
January 20, 2016
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories....
Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire
1st Edition
By Rebecca Ard Boone
January 20, 2016
As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish Empire. Ard Boone situates Gattinara at the heart of Renaissance politics and propaganda and provides the first English translation of his autobiography in full....
Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920
1st Edition
By Hayden J A Bellenoit
January 20, 2016
Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms....
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
1st Edition
By Sarah Irving
January 20, 2016
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual ...
Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769–1840
1st Edition
By Rachel Standfield
January 20, 2016
British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular consequences for land ownership. Standfield examines these differences and how they occurred....
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
1st Edition
By Angma Dey Jhala
January 20, 2016
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
1st Edition
By Christer Petley
January 20, 2016
Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they ...
The English Empire in America, 1602-1658: Beyond Jamestown
1st Edition
By L H Roper
January 20, 2016
This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century....
The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576–1806
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédéric Regard
January 20, 2016
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century....