British Imperial
Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity
... a British imperial identity, through which he asserted his belonging to a ‘civilised’ metropolitan ...a British, imperial identity in the early nineteenth ...of imperial power in ...
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The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century
... late-nineteenth-century British high imperialism in general, and the linkages between England and Egypt in ...both British officials seeking to suppress the slave trade in the region and the English public ...
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Black diamonds : coal, the Royal Navy, and British imperial coaling stations, circa 1870−1914
... As British imperial defence strategy rested on the avoidance of a major naval war, that only one of Britain’s overseas stations, the Falkland Islands, was attacked in such a lengthy period would suggest ...
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From empire to Empire: Benjamin Disraeli and the formalization of the British Imperial Social Structure
... the British monarch’s status in India was uncertain, but the issue was of little relevance as long as the Company ruled under the fiction of Mughal ...its imperial authority should pass to the monarch of ...
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British Imperial Policy and the Indian Air Route, 1918 1932
... threatened British interests, and in drawing up the Anglo-Persian agreement of 1919 the Foreign Office, intending to protect India and Persian oil supplies from the Bolshevist threat, attempted to formalise ...
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Judging Empire: Masculinity and the Making of the British Imperial Army, 1754-1783
... in British North America, wrote numerous letters to his wife reporting on the schemes of other officers stationed at Halifax to ensure that their friends and relations would be favored for ...
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‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post colonial India
... former British monarch and emperor of India, which dominated the city’s central vista, ...own imperial durbar, or coronation, before a gathering of India’s social and political ...the British ...
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Rage for Order: the British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800 1850
... the British imperial ...about imperial law were much coloured by domestic political battles, and Colonial Secretaries and their subordinates often focused more on the vicissitudes of political life ...
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The New Imperial Histories Reader
... in imperial studies catalysed a major historiographical shift in the conceptualisation of empires and imperialism and provoked a fierce backlash from orthodox ...new imperial histories posed a challenge to ...
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The Bermuda Agreement on Telecommunications 1945
... dominant British Imperial (later Commonwealth) network experienced multiple changes: the tightly integrated and collaborative imperial governance system fell away as the governing partners ...
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Global History and Biography: Reconciling Macro- and Micro Narratives in History Writing
... in British imperial subjects, Angela Woollacott, argued in her book (To Try her Fortunes in ...and imperial identities were interconstitutive, with much overlap and slippage between ...away ...
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Hegemony of Empire over Orients: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
... of British imperial power by emphasizing the necessity of having knowledge: “There is no sin so great as ignorance” ...needing British tutelage, […] since without Britain, India would disappear into ...
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The British Council’s Development After the Second World War
... the British Council was organised into a number of divisions which increased from 3 (in April 1939) to 6 (in February ...post-war British requirements and fulfil its wide-range activities, within an ...
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Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
... of British imperial support to European business interests in ...noted British scientists sent to research centres in India to promote the indigo industry demonstrates this well; but taken on a wider ...
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Collaboration and knowledge exchange between scholars in Britain and the empire, 1830–1914
... the British Isles and the Empire, it was agreed to provide funding to investi- gate the “volcanic phenomena of Vesuvius” and “earthquake phenomena of Japan” (British Association for the Advancement of ...
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Athenian Imperial Coinage
... It seems probable then that the entire early group of the Acropolis type should be dated in the reign of Claudius coinciding with the construction period of the steps (Plate[r] ...
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From Imperial Scholar to Imperial Student: Minimizing Bias in Article Evaluation
... In The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres use the metaphor of the miner's canary to show how the[r] ...
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Imperial Modernism
... Architects Drawings Collection, F&D/6/4. From one point of view Crosby’s statement is merely an expression of local anxiety, a parochial concern with a charmed circle of middling metropolitan firms that, as the ...
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Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire
... ‘This book’, writes Jeffrey A. Auerbach in his Introduction to Imperial Boredom, ‘is very much about how people felt’ [his italics]. As such, it takes its place in a growing body of scholarship that explores ...
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From innocent play to imperial survey : adolescent rites of passage in the British and German adventure novels of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1870-1905
... the British wholesale slaughter of many elephants to the extreme by refusing to kill even one ...the British, but raises him even above the German ...both British and German adults— because Cord has ...
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