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Book SynopsisThis book is about the ways in which questions of race and empire have figured in British history writing since the late 18th century.
Trade Review'An interesting, useful volume.'
Northern History, 2013 L (I)
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Table of ContentsNotes on contributors
Introduction
Part I: Liberal histories
Karen O’Brien, ‘Empire, history and emigration: From enlightenment to liberalism’
Theodore Koditschek, ‘Narrative time and racial/evolutionary time in nineteenth century British Liberal imperial history’
Marilyn Lake, ‘“Essentially Teutonic”: E A Freeman, Liberal race historian. A transnational perspective’
C. A. Bayly, ‘Empires and Indian Liberals’
Part II: Twentieth-century histories
Saul Dubow, ‘Keith Hancock, race, and empire’
Bill Schwarz, ‘“Englishry”: The histories of G. M. Trevelyan’
John MacKenzie, ‘Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English worlds? The historiography of a four nations approach to the history of the British empire’
Sonya O. Rose, ‘Who are we now? Writing the postwar “nation”, 1948–2001’
Part III: The time of the present
Kathleen Wilson, ‘The nation without: Practices of sex and state in the early modern British empire’
Antoinette Burton, ‘Getting outside of the global: Re-positioning British imperialism in world history’
Geoff Eley, ‘Imperial imaginary, colonial effect: Writing the colony and the metropole together’
Index
