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. 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.
• 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.
• 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. 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.
• 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.
• Streets-Salter, Heather. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• 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: 25

Total: 25

Theory & Empire

• 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.
• Belmessous, Saliha. Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• 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.
• 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.  
• Fieldhouse, D. Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  
• 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.
• 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.
• Wolfe, Patrick. Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. New York: Verso, 2016.

Section: 19

Total: 44

British Empire—General

• Bayly, C.A. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830. London: Longman Group, 1989.
• 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.
• 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.
• MacKenzie, John. ‘The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging: A Historiographical Reflection’. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 43 (2015).
• Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher. “The Imperialism of Free Trade,” The Economic History Review, Second series, V1, 1 (1953).
• Veracini, Lorenzo. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Section: 11

Total: 55

Metropolitan Cultures & Attitudes

• Beasley, Edward. Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information, and the Colonial Society of 1868. New York: Routledge, 2005.  
• 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.
• MacKenzie, John. Imperialism and Popular Culture. New York: Manchester University Press, 1986.  
• 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).

Section: 13

Total: 68

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.
• Woollacott, Angela. Gender and Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Section: 8

Total: 76

South Asia

• 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. 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.
• 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).” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54, 1 (2012): 65–92.

Section: 13

Total: 89

Late Colonial & Decolonization

• Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. New York: Knopf, 2008.
• Chin, Rita. The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
• Groß-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin, Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
• 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.
• 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: 10

Total: 99