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Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bah', Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that would have an impact on future generations.

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This book examines the relationship of imperialism and ethnonationalism. Through a case study of colonial Burma, it finds that British imperialists amplified ethnonationalism to protect their interests after decolonisation. This preference helped Burmese ethnonationalists to seize power in the post-colony, to the detriment of the country's people.

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This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing the politics of display. It demonstrates how questions of Irishness intersected with broader ideas of citizenship, race and ethnic construction in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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A groundbreaking study of British women's responses to the South African War of 1899-1902 throwing new light on empire and British society, gender and imperialism, and Victorian women's politics and citizenship.

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This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, imperialism, and cultural identity.

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Intimate afterlives of empire is the first comprehensive study of an important genre of cultural memory, the post-imperial autobiography

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Invoking Empire combines nine case studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to demonstrate the diverse ways people continued to interact with imperial authority in the decades before and after their colonies gained self-government, attending specifically to their efforts to apply imperial power in their local communities.

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This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colonies as they sought financial aid from Parliament.

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Protestant missionary children's historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It extends scholarship into the mid-twentieth century.

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This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of railway imperialism to their transformation into a tool for both Chinese nation making and furthering China's global ambition.

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This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.

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Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. -- .

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This work explores the sexual attitudes and activities of those who ran the British Empire. The study explains the pervasive importance of sexuality in the Victorian Empire, both for individuals and as a general dynamic in the working of the system.

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The book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies.

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The book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies.

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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. -- .

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Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenyas white insane to focus not on the great white hunters and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control.

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Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- .

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Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region.

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An analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control, The text focuses on a period which represented a critical transitional phase in the history of the Raj.

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Focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. This title interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century.

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The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space. -- .

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This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. -- .

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