*All summaries written for personal use
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