This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzies influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.
Part I Introduction.-
1. Stephanie Barczewski, The MacKenzian Moment
Past and Present.-
2. Stuart Ward, The Moving Frontier of MacKenzies
Empire.- Part II The Cultural Impact of Empire.-
3. John McAleer, Exhibiting
the Strangest of all Empires: The East India Company, East India House, and
Britains Asian Empire.-
4. Peter Yeandle, The Patriotic Pachyderm: Race,
Nation, and Empire in the Jumbomania of 1882.-
5. Justin D. Livingstone,
Popular Imperial Fiction and the Textual Cultures of Empire.-
6. Sarah
Longair, Projections of Empire: The Architecture of Colonial Museums in East
Africa.-
7. Martin Farr, Swinging Imperialism: Days in the Life of the
Commonwealth Office, 1966-1968.- Part III Four-Nations History.-
8. Stephanie
Barczewski, Scottish Landed-Estate Purchases, Empire, and Union, 1700-1900.-
9. Finlay McKichan, Electoral Politics and Lord Seaforth as a Landed
Proprietor in Scotland and as Governor of Barbados.-
10. Donal Lowry, Making
John Redmond an Irish Louis Botha:The Dominion Dimensions of the
Anglo-Irish Settlement, c.1906-1922.-
11. Esther Breitenbach, Pro-Empire
Sentiment in Twentieth-Century Scotland before Decolonisation.-
12. Andrew
MacKillop, What Has the Four-Nations and Empire Model Achieved?.- Part IV
Global and Transnational Perspectives.-
13. Douglas Hamilton, Brothers in
Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch West
Indies.-
14. Fabrice Bensimon, Chartism in the British World and Beyond.-
15.
Matthew G. Stanard, Lumumbas Ghost: A Historiography of Belgian Colonial
Culture.-
16. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, The Brightness You Bring into our
Otherwise very Dull Existence: Responses to Dutch Global Radio Broadcasts
from the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s.-
17. Berny Sčbe,
MacKenzie-ites without Borders: Or How a Set of Concepts, Ideas, and Methods
Went Global.-
18. John Darwin, Afterword.-
Stephanie Barczewski is Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of History at Clemson University, USA. Her most recent publication is Heroic Failure and the British (2016).
Martin Farr is Senior Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, UK. He teaches and writes on British politics and public life since 1914.
