Modern Britain, the British Empire & World History

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World History

• Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The World System, 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Ballantyne, Tony and Antoinette Burton. Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
• Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
• Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1972.
• Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Vintage, 1998.
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Civlizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature. New York: Free Press, 2001.
• Gunder Frank, A. ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
• Ho, Engseng. The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
• Hodgson, Marshall. Re-thinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Hopkins, A. G. Globalization in World History. New York: Random House, 2002.
• Lake, Marilyn and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
• Manning, Patrick. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.
• McNeill, John. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
• McNeil, John R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• McNeill, William. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Books, 1976.
• McNeill, William. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1990.
• Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.
• Morris, Ian. Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal about the Future. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010.
• Moses, Dirk A. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010).
• Northrop, Douglas. A Companion to World History. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
• Parthasarathi, Prasannan. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Pang, Alex Soojung-Kim. Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).
• Pearson, M.N. The Indian Ocean (New York: Routledge, 2003).
• Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
• Streets-Salter, Heather. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Toynbee, A. A Study of History, Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Wallerstein, Immanuel. Modern World System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
• Wright, Donald. The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2010.

Section: 32

Total: 32

Theory & Empire

• Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
• Adas, Michael. Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 2016.
• Arnold, David. The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996.
• Belmessous, Saliha. Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Benton, Lauren. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
• Bush, Barbara. Imperialism and Postcolonialism. London: Pearson, 2006.
• Cooper, Frederick. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.  
• Cooper, Frederick and Ann Laura Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
• Curtin, Philip. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.  
• Darwin, John. After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1405-2000. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
• Driver, Felix. Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity. New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.  
• Elliott, John. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Fieldhouse, D. Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  
• Hart, Jonathan. Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  
• Hart, Jonathan. Representing the New World: The English and French Uses of the Example of Spain. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• Headrick, Daniel R. Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
• Hobson, J.A. Imperialism: A Study. London: A. Constable, 1905.
• Karsh, Efraim. Islamic Imperialism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.  
• Lenin, Vladimir. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline. New York: International Publishers, 1939.
• Mooers, Colin. The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
• Osterhammel, Jürgen. Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. Princeton: Ian Randle Publishers, 1997.  
• Rice, Laura. Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
• Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.
• Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.  
• Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.  
• Streets-Salter, Heather and Trevor Getz. Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Section: 28

Total: 60

French Empire

• Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
• Daughton, J.P. An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. London: Penguin, 2001.
• Lorcin, Patricia. Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Race, and Prejudice in Colonial Algeria. I.B. Tauris, 1999.
• Singer, Barnett and John Langdon. Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Section: 5

Total: 65

British Empire—General

• Bayly, C.A. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830. London: Longman Group, 1989.
• Beattie, J., E. Melillo and E. O’Gorman. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
• Black, Jeremy. The British Seaborne Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
• Burton, Antoinette. The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Cain, P.J. and A.G. Hopkins. British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990. London: Longman, 1993.
• Brown, Judith M. and Wm. Roger Louis, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Darwin. John. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Darwin, John.“Roundtable: Imperial History by the Book: A Roundtable on John Darwin’s ‘The Empire Project.’”Journal of British Studies 54, 4 (2015):, 993-997.
• Darwin. John. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
• Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. New York: Verso, 2004.
• Levine, Philippa. The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.  
• MacKenzie, John. ‘The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging: A Historiographical Reflection’. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 43 (2015).
• Porter, Bernard. The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1970. London: Longman, 1975.
• Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher. “The Imperialism of Free Trade,” The Economic History Review, Second series, VI, 1 (1953).
• Stockwell, Sarah, ed. The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives. Malden: Blackwell, 2008.  

Section: 15

Total: 80

Metropolitan Cultures & Attitudes

• Beasley, Edward. Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information, and the Colonial Society of 1868. New York: Routledge, 2005.  
• Bell, Duncan. The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.  
• Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.  
• Cannadine, David. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Hall, Catherine and Sonya Rose. At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Harper, Marjory. Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movement of Emigrants, 1600-2000. New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.  
• Hobsbawm, E.J. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.
• Lester, Alan. “Imperial Circuits and Networks: Geographies of the British Empire.” History Compass 4, 1 (2006): 124-141.
• MacAleer, John, and John MacKenzie, eds. Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of Display and the British Empire. New York: Manchester University Press, 2015.
• MacKenzie, John. Imperialism and Popular Culture. New York: Manchester University Press, 1986.  
• Mangan, J.A. The Games Ethic and Imperialism: Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal. New York: Viking, 1985.
• Porter, Bernard. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997.
• Streets, Heather. Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
• Thompson, Andrew S. The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the mid-   Nineteenth Century. New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Thorne, Susan. Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
• Wilson, Kathleen. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Yeandle, Peter. Citizenship, Nation, Empire: The Politics of History Teaching in England 1870-1930. New York: Manchester University Press, 2013.

Section: 18

Total: 98

Gender

• Ballantyne, Tony and Antoinette Burton. Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
• Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann, and Frances Gouda, Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998).
• Levine, Philippa. Gender and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Levine, Philippa. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. London: Routledge, 2003.
• Nandy, Ashis. “The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age and Ideology in British India,” in The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Powell, Avril and Lambert-Hurley, S, eds. Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Stoler, Ann. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
• Weisner-Hanks, Merry. Gender in History: Global Perspectives. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• Woollacott, Angela. Gender and Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Section: 9

Total: 107

South Asia

• Arnold, David. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Colonial India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Bayly, C.A. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Bayly, C.A. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. New York: Routledge, 1998.
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori, eds. From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Goswami, Manu. Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
• Guha, Ranajit. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Guha, Ranajit and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds. Selected Subaltern Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Kerr, Ian J. Building the Railways of the Raj, 1850-1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
• Metcalf, Thomas. Ideologies of the Raj. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Metcalf, Thomas. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920. Oakland: University of California Press, 2008.
• Peers, Douglas M. and Nandini Gooptu, eds. India and the British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Raza, Ali, Franzisca Roy and Benjamin Zachariah. The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds, and World Views. New York: Sage, 2014.
• Sarkar, Sumit. Modern India, 1885-1947. Noida: Macmillan India, 2002.
• Sinha, Mrinalini. Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
• Stolte, Carolien, and Harald Fischer-Tiné. “Imagining Asia in India: Nationalism and Internationalism (ca. 1905–1940).” Comp Stud Soc Hist 54, 1 (2012): 65–92.
• Tomlinson, B.R. Political Economy of the Raj 1914-1947. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979.

Section: 19

Total: 126

Settler Colonies

• Ballantyne, Tony. Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Colonial Past. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2012.
• Etherington, Norman. Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007.
• Kennedy, Dane K. Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987.
• Laidlaw, Zoe, and Alan Lester, eds. Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss, and Survival in an Interconnected World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Magee, Gary, and Andrew Thompson. Empire and Globalization: Networks of People, Goods, and Capital in the British World 1850-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Reynolds, Henry. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia. Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 2006.
• Veracini, Lorenzo. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Wolfe, Patrick. Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. New York: Verso, 2016.

Section: 8

Total: 134

Late Colonial & Decolonization

• Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. New York: Knopf, 2008.
• Chamberlain, Muriel. Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires. Malden: Blackwell, 1999.
• Chin, Rita. The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
• Groß-Fitzgibbon, B., Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
• Hodge, Joseph. Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.  
• Holland, Ray F. European Decolonisation, 1918-1981: An Introductory Survey. London: Palgrave, 1985.
• Hyam, Ronald. Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Ittmann, Karl. A Problem of Great Importance: Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
• Kahler, Miles. Decolonization in Britain and France: The Domestic Consequences of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Louis, William Roger. Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonisation. London, I.B. Tauris, 2006.
• Maier, Charles S. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Matera, Marc. Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).
• Parsons, Timothy. The Second British Empire: In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
• Reynolds, David. Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 1991.
• Shipway, Martin. Decolonization and its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires. Malden: Blackwell, 2008.  
• Thomas, Martin, Bob Moore, and L.J. Butler, Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe’s Imperial States, 1918-1975 (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2008).

Section: 16

Total: 150