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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6144)IMPERIAL BEAST FABLES Animals, cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire KAORI NAGAI 252pp. Palgrave Macmillan. 69.99 [pounds sterling]. The expansion of empire in the nineteenth century led to a boom in...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFamines force agonizing choices on states. When major El Nino-related drought famines struck China, India, Brazil, Korea, Egypt, and southern Africa in the late 1870s, the states in charge of those polities struggled to...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe role of influence--what constitutes it, how it works and who exercises it--is the subject of much research on British foreign and defence policy making in the twentieth century. This article introduces a possible...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN 1909, Mohandas Gandhi reflected on imperial politics in the twentieth century's first decade with a word of warning. He and the readers of Hind Swaraj, his seminal working-out of a program of liberation for Indians...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION: STATE, AGENCY, AND CAPITALISM Melcher Todd was a West Indian planter who had just married when he produced 290 metric tons of brown sugar in 1847. To bring his sugar to market in Great Britain, Todd...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on Australia's complex relationship with colonialism and empire. This relationship is most often examined through the related frameworks of settler colonialism and Australia's place within the...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn light of recent research on the role of Protestant Christianity in the British Empire, this article explores the possibility that the British actually carried to India a "religion" besides Protestantism, something...
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From:Australian Journal of Music Education (Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is a universality to the sight of groups of children celebrating public events. These groups might be large or small but teachers and students put much time and effort into preparing performances for appreciative...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedHistorian Antoinette Burton expresses postcolonial impatience with literary nostalgia in regard to the British Empire, particularly as evidenced by Tom Stoppard's drama Indian Ink, which she claims "pretend[s] to...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION During the mid-nineteenth century the British Empire in Asia facilitated economic change and global mass migrations with its demand for resources, cheap labor, and its violent opening of closed markets...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6150)EMPIRELAND How imperialism has shaped modern Britain SATHNAM SANGHERA 320pp. Viking. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. EMPIRELAND IS A BOOK about the British Empire by someone who makes a point of letting his readers...
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From:International Social Science Review (Vol. 97, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKieran Connell. Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. ix+220 pages. Softcover, $34.95. At its height, the British Empire ruled over 412 million people. The country's...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 44, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay interrogates the nature, limits, and effects of the juxtaposition of Great Britain and Melanesia that takes place in Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995), the final installment of the much-lauded...
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From:School Librarian (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBenjamin, Floella and Ewen, Diane Coming to England Macmillan 2020, pp32, [pounds sterling]12.99 978 1 5290 0941 5 Emigration. Trinidad. Windrush The book begins with Dardie setting off for England to become a...
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From:Historical Studies (Vol. 79) Peer-ReviewedThe appearance in 1829 of the Friends of Ireland in Bytown offers us a remarkable glimpse of the ways in which the steady influx of Irish Catholic immigrants affected Bishop Alexander Macdonell's Church and...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the late nineteenth century, the British government in India attempted to quell anti-colonial critique by criminalizing negative affect. This essay explores the relationship between "disaffection" and critique in...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGiants have trampled the earth and asked no pardon-- Well, nor did I. He took our family's gold. I stole it back and saw the giant die. --Judith Wright, "The Beanstalk, Meditated Later" Folk narrative has...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHISTORY is the midst of what David Bell has referred to as a "global turn." (1) Over the past decade, historians have increasingly turned away from the study of issues connected to the history of the nation-state in...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the Chartist movement is often seen as focused on domestic reforms, Chartist newspapers and journals of the 1830s and 1840s extensively commented upon various aspects of the expanding British empire, including...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6150)UNLOCKING THE WORLD Port cities and globalization in the age of steam 1830-1930 JOHN DARWIN 496pp. Allen Lane. 25 [pounds sterling]. FOR RUDYARD KIPLING, Bombay was the, "Mother of Cities to me". He "was...