The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britains imperial role and issues of difference.
Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present, these essays consider both individual historians, including such key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock, and also broader themes such as the relationship between liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and cross-cultural analysis.
Britishness and what British history is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story: race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of British history.
The contributors include some of the most distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake, John M. MacKenzie, Karen OBrien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz, Kathleen Wilson.
This book is about the ways in which questions of race and empire have figured in British history writing since the late 18th century.
Recenzijas
'An interesting, useful volume.' Northern History, 2013 L (I) -- .
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part I: Liberal histories
Karen OBrien, 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, 19482001
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
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Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Keith McClelland is a Research Associate on the Legacies of British slave-ownership project, Department of History, University College London -- .
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