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Remaking “Englishness” and Place: John Stapylton Grey Pemberton's Nineteenth-century Accounts of the Indian Rebellion Sites at Kanpur and Lucknow Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Martin Beattie
This article focusses on a trip made by John Stapylton Grey Pemberton in 1887 to two major battle sites from the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Memorial Well Gardens, Kanpur, and the Residency ruins, Lucknow. Both sites, despite being present in a foreign country, were invented and transformed after the rebellion in acts of national remembrance as places of ‘Englishness’. The selection of Pemberton's
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Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Cees Heere
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Zoë Laidlaw, Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Darren Reid
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The First ‘British’ Colony in the Americas: Inter-kingdom Cooperation and Stuart-British Ideology in the Colonisation of Newfoundland, 1616–1640 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Joseph Wagner
The accession of James VI, the Stewart (or Stuart) King of Scots, to the thrones of England and Ireland in 1603 renewed debates about ‘Britishness’. Many of the king’s attempts to popularise and codify his version of the concept were unsuccessful. His vision for closer political union between England and Scotland did not come to pass until 1707 and most historians attribute the formation of British
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Education, Culture and the British Position in the Arabian Gulf: Establishing the British Council in Kuwait, 1952–1955 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Gerald Power
Connections between Great Britain and the countries of the Arabian Gulf during the era of the Cold War and decolonisation have been the subject of close examination by historians in recent years. However, no historian has addressed with any profundity the cultural dimension of Britain's dealings with the Gulf states. The intent of this article is to confront this question and to show that cultural
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Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890–1920 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jonathan Shipe
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Eric Richards, The Genesis of International Mass Migration: The British Case, 1750–1900 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Melanie Burkett
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Sugar Rush: Sugar and Science in the British Caribbean Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Nicole A. Jacoberger
This article examines the contrasting evolution in sugar refining in Jamaica and Barbados incentivized by Mercantilist policies, changes in labor systems, and competition from foreign sugar revealing the role of Caribbean plantations as a site for experimentation from the eighteenth through mid-nineteenth century. Britain's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century protectionist policies imposed high duties
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O. J. Wright, Great Britain and the Unifying of Italy: A Special Relationship? Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Nick Carter
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History and Foreign Policy: Franco-British Cooperation towards Greek Independence 1828–1830 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Rachel Chin
On 6 July 1827 the Treaty of London committed France, Britain, and Russia to working together to mediate the question of Greek independence. This was one of the first examples of Franco-British cooperation after the Napoleonic Wars. Although officials on both sides of the Channel publicly celebrated Franco-British cooperation over the Greek affair, behind closed doors policy makers remained suspicious
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David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964–1979: A Race Against Time Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Carl P. Watts
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David T. Gleeson (ed.), English Ethnicity and Culture in North America Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jeffery R. Hankins
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Sylvia Shorto, British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Stephanie Barczewski
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‘A mere sandbank of no possible use for the Empire?’ Heligoland under British Rule Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jan Asmussen
Heligoland (Helgoland) was one of the smallest possessions of the British Empire. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807, it remained under British rule for 83 years. In 1890, the island became part of a deal that lead to German acceptance of British sovereignty over Uganda, Kenya and Zanzibar. In exchange, Germany received Heligoland. This article sheds light on the developments that transformed
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Arnold J. Toynbee, the Colonial Question, and ‘Peaceful Change’ Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Robert D. Venosa
While most scholarship on appeasement focuses on its later stages in Europe – culminating in the Munich Agreement – policymakers and public intellectuals throughout the early and mid-1930s were exercised by appeasement in a different context. These prominent Britons, concerned by increasing international tensions and conscious of the resentments engendered by having a globe-spanning empire, sought
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Accepting Dominion Status as a Way of Reconciliation of British-Irish Disputes? Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jaroslav Valkoun
The article is focused on an analysis of British-Irish relations in 1921. From the British point of view, the best solution to the conflict seemed to be the granting of Dominion status. It was based on the assumption that the British Empire represented the largest community of free sister nations in the world. On the contrary, Irish officials did not have the confidence to participate in various colonial
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Jonathan Boff, Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Justin Quinn Olmstead
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Sam Hutchinson, Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863–1902 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jacob Ivey
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Thomas James Rogers, The Civilisation of Port Phillip: Settler Ideology, Violence, and Rhetorical Possession Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Melanie Burkett
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Stability and Instability in Micro and Macro Contexts Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 John M. MacKenzie
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Dangerous Ground or Rich New Research Methods? Using Digital Genealogy to Trace Colonial Mobility Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Sue McCliskie
More than 3,000 emigrants took up the New Zealand Company's offer of a free or assisted passage to Nelson, the company's Second Colony of New Zealand, from 1841 to 1844 – but did they stay? This article outlines an academic project that combines genealogy techniques and sources with more conventional research, in order to reveal new information about colonial migrants who are often ‘invisible’ in historical
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Empire, Dissidence and Disease. The Impact of the First World War on the Molteno District of the Eastern Cape, 1914–1919 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Pat Gibbs
This article explores the social impact of the First World War on the remote farming area of the Molteno District in the North Eastern Cape of South Africa from 1914 to 1919. It deals with the impact of the war on ideologies, political transition, race and health. Since its inception in 1874 as a coal mining town, Molteno had been dominated by British merchants, public servants and professional men
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Roger Jeffery (ed.), India in Edinburgh: 1750s to the Present Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 John M. MacKenzie
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Cecilia Morgan, Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Darren Reid
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Rob Waters, Thinking Black: Britain, 1964–1985 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Richard Toye
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Robert A. Olwell and James M. Vaughan (eds), Envisioning Empire. The New British World from 1763 to 1773 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Jeremy Black
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Stuart Ward and Astrid Rasch (eds), Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 John Griffiths
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The Search for World Order and the Wars in Kosovo and Iraq Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 James Ellison
In the search of world order after the Cold War, two conflicts were of particular significance. The first, in Kosovo in 1999, was fought to end the Serbian genocide of Kosovar Albanians. The second, in Iraq in 2003, was a war of choice ostensibly to remove the threat of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime and the weapons of mass destruction it supposedly held. Although distinct, these wars were joined as
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Seeking ‘A Fair Field’ for Women in the Legal Profession: Pioneering Women Lawyers from Burma of 1924-19351 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Li Chen,Yi Li
The enactment of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in 1919 tore down a significant gender barrier and opened doors of the once exclusively male legal profession in the United Kingdom. This article focuses on its early beneficiaries in Burma, a less studied colony of the Empire in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It traces the first four women barristers from colonial Burma, and their odyssey to
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English Misadventures in the Red Sea and the Tangled Web of Jurisdiction, Sovereignty and Commerce in the Early Seventeenth Century Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Jason C. White
This article analyses the first three English ventures into the Red Sea from 1608–1614 under the auspices of the East India Company's fourth, sixth, and eighth voyages. These ventures experienced a...
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Laura McAtackney, An Archaeology of The Troubles: The dark heritage of Long Kesh/Maze Prison Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Oliver P. Rafferty SJ
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Andrea Bosco, The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the ‘Second’ British Empire (1909–1919) Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 John C. Mitcham
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A. G. Hopkins, American Empire: A Global History Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Alys Beverton
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The Complex Circuit Boards of Empire Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 John M. MacKenzie
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Robert Saunders, Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Martin Farr
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‘Our Brethren’: A British Version of Southern Separatist Ideology during the American Civil War Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Michael J. Turner
British responses to the American Civil War were not straightforward, though the relevant historiography has tended to concentrate on a number of now quite familiar explanations. The reasons why Br...
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‘The Piracies of Some Little Privateers’: Language, Law and Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 John Coakley
Prior to the eighteenth century, the words ‘pirate’ and ‘privateer’ had no comprehensive English legal meanings. Scholars today who attempt to determine who in history was a ‘pirate’ run afoul of t...
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The Fabianisation of the British Empire: Post-War Colonial Summer Conferences and Community Development in Kenya, 1948–1956 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Joseph M. Snyder
This article examines the influence of the Fabian Society on post-war colonial development from 1948 to 1956. This study demonstrates that a primary vehicle for the ‘Fabianisation’ of the British E...
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Regulating Sin in the City: The Moral Geographies of Naval Port Towns in Britain and Germany, c.1860–1914 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Brad Beaven, Mathias Seiter
Naval towns were regarded as potent symbols of imperial power. Beneath this image however, contemporaries were concerned about the prostitution and heavy drinking which were associated with the sai...
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Jeremy Black, Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Nathaniel Bassett
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Amanda Bidnall, The West Indian Generation. Remaking British Culture in London, 1945–1965 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Anna Maguire
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Chi-kwan Mark, The Everyday Cold War: Britain and China, 1950–1972 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Jonathan Howlett
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Jane Desmarais, Monsters Under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Marc Ricard
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Ryan Shaffer, Music, Youth and International Links in Post-War British Fascism: The Transformation of Extremism Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Sian Edwards
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Images of British Material Culture in Korean Newspapers 1920–1999 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Heasim Sul
Despite the prominence of Britain in the Korean diplomatic and academic traditions, the popular perception of Britain has received little scholarly attention. This article attempts to reconstruct K...
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Mountbatten, Auchinleck and the End of the British Indian Army: August–November 1947 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Rakesh Ankit
Juxtaposing the private papers of Louis Mountbatten and Claude Auchinleck, this article seeks to shed light on the most influential factor in the reconstitution of the British Indian Army into the ...
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Anglophile Households and British Travellers in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna: ‘A Very Numerous and Pleasant English Colony’ Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Rebecca Gates-Coon
‘Anglophilia’ was a Europe-wide phenomenon during the eighteenth century, and in Austria and particularly Vienna this affinity for things and persons ‘English’ was widespread. For many British visi...
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G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Stephen G. Hague
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David Cannadine, Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800–1906 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Oliver Hadingham
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Andrew C. Rath, The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854–1856 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 David Brown
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Laura A. M. Stewart, Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Robert Landrum
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André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, Christopher Merrett, Jonty Winch, Cricket and Conquest: the History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume I, 1795–1914 Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Martin Farr
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The Levantine British: Defying Imperial Race Categories in Colonial Alexandria Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 James Whidden
This treatment of the Levantine British, based on family diaries and consular reports, asks why a British colonial, Michael Barker, exiled from Egypt in 1956, continued to identify with the Alexand...
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Beyond the Empire: British Influence on the Warsaw Theatre Scene in the Nineteenth Century Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Agata Łuksza
In the late nineteenth century British culture, politics and history were customary topics in Polish newspapers, and Shakespeare's dramas were the most often performed classic texts on the Warsaw t...
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Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic in Edwardian Imperial Thought Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Patrick M. Kirkwood
In the first decade of the twentieth century, a rising generation of British colonial administrators profoundly altered British usage of American history in imperial debates. In the process, they i...
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The 1924 Empire Cruise and the Imagining of an Imperial Community Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 John C. Mitcham
This article examines the cultural contours of the Royal Navy's postwar ‘Empire Cruise’. In late 1923, the British government dispatched a ‘Special Service Squadron’ of powerful battlecruisers on a...
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‘Devote the best years of their lives’: British Solutions to Natal's Defence Concerns in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Jacob Ivey
The annexation and establishment of Natal as a British colony by 1845 was an event defined by conflict and concerns for security in British Southern Africa. The threat of invasion from the nearby Zulu kingdom or the possibility of an indigenous uprising continued to cast a shadow over the growth and expansion of the colony during the following decades. In response, those living within the colony offered
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Andrekos Varnava, Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, imperial loyalty and silenced memory Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Antigone Heraclidou
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Michelle Tusan, The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Leslie Rogne Schumacher
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David C. Atkinson, The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States Britain and the World (IF 0.353) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Cornelis Heere