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This cluster of papers explores the complex interplay of British imperialism, Australian history, and national identity. It delves into topics such as colonialism, imperial networks, settler discourse, convict transportation, and the cultural turn in understanding the impact of British imperialism on Australia and beyond.

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British imperialism; Australian history; national identity; colonialism; imperial networks; settler discourse; transnational history; empire and identity; convict transportation; cultural turn

Culture as history : the transformation of American society in the twentieth century

1984-01-01

Warren I. Susman

The Blue and Brown Books

2014-06-03

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Making of the English Working Class.

1966-01-01

Neil J. Smelser , E. P. Thompson

Fifty years since first publication, E. P. revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic … Fifty years since first publication, E. P. revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality. Reviews: A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England. (Martin Kettle, Observer). Superbly readable ...a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation. (Asa Briggs, Financial Times). Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst. (E. J. Hobsbawm, Independent). event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century. (Michael Foot, Times Literary Supplement). greatest of our socialist historians. (Terry Eagleton, New Statesman). About the author: E. P. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time. Thompson was also an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War. He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons.

The Australian dictionary of biography

1960-11-01

Arthur Huck

THE IMPERIALISM OF FREE TRADE

1953-08-01

John Gallagher , Ronald Robinson

Abstract I It ought to be a commonplace that Great Britain during the 19th century expanded overseas by means of “informal empire” as much as by acquiring dominion in the … Abstract I It ought to be a commonplace that Great Britain during the 19th century expanded overseas by means of “informal empire” as much as by acquiring dominion in the strict constitutional sense. For purposes of economic analysis it would clearly be unreal to define imperial history exclusively as the history of those colonies coloured red on the map. Nevertheless, almost all imperial history has been written on the assumption that the empire of formal dominion is historically comprehensible in itself and can be cut out of its context in British expansion and world politics. The conventional interpretation of the 19th-century empire continues to rest upon study of the formal empire alone, which is rather like judging the size and character of icebergs solely from the parts above the water-line.

The intellectual life of the British working classes

2002-03-01

Jonathan Rose

This text traces the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the 20th century. Using research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources such … This text traces the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the 20th century. Using research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources such as workers' memoirs, social surveys and library registers, Jonathan Rose seeks to answer such questions as which books people read, how and why they educated themselves, and what they knew. In the process this account of the life of the mind reveals much about working-class politics, ideology, popular culture and social relationships.

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

1982-02-01

Ann Flesor Beck , Daniel R. Headrick

Culture and Imperialism

2017-10-02

Edward W. Said

From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. While many … From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. While many historians and commentators have analyzed the phenomenon of the imperial power wielded by Britain (and France) in the 19th century, this book analyzes its impact on the culture of the period. The author focusses on the way this cultural legacy has embedded itself in the Western view of the East, and affects our relationship with the formerly colonized world at every level, both social and political. The author also wrote Orientalism.

Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation Building State Changes Its Mind.

1993-03-01

Peter Self , Michael Pusey

Throughout the world since the 1970s, state and public sector reform has been driven by a conservative agenda emphasising notions of 'streamlining' and 'rationalisation'; Australia has been no exception. Michael … Throughout the world since the 1970s, state and public sector reform has been driven by a conservative agenda emphasising notions of 'streamlining' and 'rationalisation'; Australia has been no exception. Michael Pusey undertakes a detailed analysis of top bureaucrats in Canberra who have been responsible for this recasting of national policy. He concludes that economist rationalist view dominate each of the key ministries, and have altered the traditional balance between the economy, the state and society. The book also discusses the social significance of economic rationalisation and public sector reform from a theoretical perspective, contributing to contemporary understanding of modernisation, public morality and citizenship in the new global order.

Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race.

1996-12-01

Patrick Brantlinger , Robert Young

The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking … The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially. Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing study of the history of Englishness and 'culture'. Robert Young argues that the theories advanced today about post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. 'Englishness', Young argues, has been less fixed and stable than uncertain, fissured with difference and a desire for otherness.

Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers

1979-09-01

Thomas C. Leonard , Michael Schudson

Journal Article Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic, 1978. xi + 228 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Thomas C. … Journal Article Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic, 1978. xi + 228 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 365–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900892 Published: 01 September 1979

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture.

1994-11-01

Richard L. Bushman , W. Barton Leach

Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities

1992-07-01

Robert Miles

Journal Article Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities Get access Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities. By Etienne Balibarand Immanuel Wallerstein. London: Verso. 1992. 232pp. ISBN 0 86091 327 9. Pb.: £10.95. … Journal Article Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities Get access Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities. By Etienne Balibarand Immanuel Wallerstein. London: Verso. 1992. 232pp. ISBN 0 86091 327 9. Pb.: £10.95. ISBN 0 86091 543 5. Robert Miles Robert Miles 1University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 526–527, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622996 Published: 01 July 1992

Culture and Imperialism

1994-01-01

Fawzia Afzal‐Khan , Edward W. Said

1888: ‘The American Commonwealth’

1968-01-01

Edmund Ions

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.

1993-02-01

Marc Baer , Linda Colley

Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics

1961-10-01

Brian Chapman

Journal Article Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics Get access Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. By Seymour Martin Lipset. London, Melbourne, Toronto, Heinemann, 1960. 432 pp. Index. … Journal Article Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics Get access Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. By Seymour Martin Lipset. London, Melbourne, Toronto, Heinemann, 1960. 432 pp. Index. 30s. Brian Chapman Brian Chapman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 4, October 1961, Page 484, https://doi.org/10.2307/2611074 Published: 01 October 1961

A Chronicle of Higher Education

2017-04-11

Morton Kroll

Harry Birkin's battles with time and timing were evident from early childhood. In postcards, letters and memoranda we trace his development as a child, adolescent, undergraduate student, and his career … Harry Birkin's battles with time and timing were evident from early childhood. In postcards, letters and memoranda we trace his development as a child, adolescent, undergraduate student, and his career in academia. We read of Harry's progress through his creative rationalizations for the delays and mishaps that characterized his personal and administrative behavior. He moved up the ladder to positions of increased responsibility, sufficiently admired by his colleagues, his profession and institution, to have had, upon his retirement, a campus building named for him. Harry, so to speak, marched to a different beat.

The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

1992-01-01

Andrew J. Pierre , Samuel P. Huntington

Culture and Imperialism

1993-01-01

Andrew J. Pierre , Edward W. Said

Drawing the Global Colour Line

2008-01-24

Marilyn Lake , Henry Reynolds

In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new … In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book studies the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds show how in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century these countries worked in solidarity to exclude those they defined as not-white, actions that provoked a long international struggle for racial equality. Their findings make clear the centrality of struggles around mobility and sovereignty to modern formulations of both race and human rights.

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Settler Colonialism

2010-01-01

Lorenzo Veracini

Tensions of Empire

1997-02-06

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.

1995-05-01

Iverson Griffin , Paul Gilroy

After nature: English kinship in the late twentieth century

1992-12-01

Postcolonialism: an historical introduction

2002-02-01

Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World

2001-06-01

John W. Cell , Richard Drayton

The English Historical Review.

1913-11-01

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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

2000-09-04

David Armitage

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial … The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.

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Cultural Imperialism

1991-01-01

John Tomlinson

The Oxford history of the British Empire

1998-01-01

William Roger Louis

Cultures of United States Imperialism

1994-01-01

Susan M. Nuernberg

Reviewed by: Cultures of United States Imperialism Susan Nuernberg Kaplan, Amy and Donald E. Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1993. 672 pp. Cloth: $59.95. … Reviewed by: Cultures of United States Imperialism Susan Nuernberg Kaplan, Amy and Donald E. Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1993. 672 pp. Cloth: $59.95. Paper: $18.95. Susan Nuernberg University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh Copyright © 1994 Northeastern University

The Path Choice of New Realism Novels

2025-06-25

Mao Nie , Zhu Yao | Routledge eBooks

Pageant Stations: Civic Entertainments in <i>The London Journal</i>

2025-06-24

Tracey Hill | The London Journal

JAMES HENRY COUSINS:

2025-06-24

Sirshendu Majumdar | Anthem Press eBooks

Ascendancy

2025-06-24

| Yale University Press eBooks

Revisionism

2025-06-23

Shaun Richards | Cambridge University Press eBooks

‘Quaking Witches'

2025-06-23

Debra Parish | Routledge eBooks

The Immoral Dean

2025-06-22

T Larsen | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract This chapter recounts the life and ministry of Frederick William Worsley (1873–1956). He was the classic sporting vicar, beloved for his athletic prowess and enthusiasms. His story is difficult … Abstract This chapter recounts the life and ministry of Frederick William Worsley (1873–1956). He was the classic sporting vicar, beloved for his athletic prowess and enthusiasms. His story is difficult to piece together as it involved lies and secrets. He even falsely claimed to have been wounded in the war. The challenge of discovery of the true story is made worse by the fact that his son, the journalist T. C. Worsley, wrote a tell-all memoir that is also marred by false claims and basic inaccuracies. Despite having affairs throughout his ministry, F. W. Worsley continued to rise in the Church, eventually becoming dean of Llandaff, before his infidelities finally led to his being forced out of the ministry (though in a way that did not create a public scandal).

The Bonding of Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton

2025-06-20

Jonathan Nashel | University Press of Kansas eBooks

Greek Islander Migration to Australian since the 1950s: (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home

2025-06-20

Yianni Cartledge | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History

Rethinking cultural imperialism

2025-06-20

Jara Fernández Meneses | Routledge eBooks

Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire

2025-06-20

Matthew Dimmock , Andrew Hadfield | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract This book provides a snapshot of the ways in which British men and women imagined and conceived the world in the early seventeenth century. It shows how they envisaged … Abstract This book provides a snapshot of the ways in which British men and women imagined and conceived the world in the early seventeenth century. It shows how they envisaged the different areas and their significant, defining features, and what boundaries they saw that divided them. Britain interacted with a religiously fractured Europe, with travel to the continent restricted despite the significance of trade, and had a complicated relationship with the powerful Islamic empires of Asia. There was a keen interest in travelling north to open up new trade routes, and accessing the riches of the diverse countries to the east, China, Japan and the islands that now form the Philippines and Indonesia, as well as Africa, with its abundant resources, real and imagined. The world the British saw was an intoxicating combination of trading possibilities and island constellations in distant seas; similar and different peoples; resources to be exploited, and strange wonders. The book shows Britain on the verge of establishing an empire, possessing a few colonies in the Americas but not yet with any understanding that it would soon rule a quarter of the earth’s surface.

Life in Georgian Beverley. The later diaries of John Courtney, 1788-1805

2025-06-20

Gillian Cookson | Yorkshire Archaeological Journal

The Historical Novel of Whiteness

2025-06-19

T. Austin Graham | Cambridge University Press eBooks

The origin of the clans

2025-06-19

| Oxbow Books

The wages of numeracy

2025-06-19

Ted McCormick | Intellectual History Review

“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971

2025-06-19

Chris Dixon , Jon Piccini | Australian Journal of Politics & History

Nearly 10% of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam spent one week of “R&R” leave in Australia—principally in Sydney. This “friendly invasion” constitutes a substantial neglected legacy of … Nearly 10% of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam spent one week of “R&R” leave in Australia—principally in Sydney. This “friendly invasion” constitutes a substantial neglected legacy of the conflict. Across dozens of oral history interviews and memoirs, US servicemen recall with fondness their week‐long respite in a nation that was at once comfortably familiar and safely distinct. Their preconceptions of Australia were framed by racialised and sexualised imaginaries. Comforted by the prospect of spending time in a predominantly “White” nation, White Americans were candid about their desire to enjoy the company of Australian women. At the same time, perceptions of Australian racism and immigration exclusion framed the expectations of African American servicemen. Reality, however, was more complicated, and undermines easy assumptions. While Australian memory of the scheme centres on its supposedly dramatic role in Sydney's nightlife district, Kings Cross, the experiences of Americans were far more diverse than such narratives would suggest. Perhaps surprisingly, the experiences of African American and Latino servicemen in Australia were also frequently welcoming and non‐discriminatory. Individual Australians were more colour‐blind in their everyday interactions than their governments, reinforcing scholarly findings regarding the reception of Black servicemen during the Second World War.