What were the key geographical, economic and cultural foundations of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

What were the key geographical, economic and cultural foundations of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

Ruling the World – Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2020-12-16
Book | Essential
1. Essential Reading (7 items)
Cultures of empire: colonizers in Britain and the empire in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries : a reader – Catherine Hall, 2000
Book | Essential | Read: Introduction: thinking the postcolonial, thinking the empire
DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on this course.
International encyclopedia of human geography – 2009
Book | Essential | Read: Lester, A. Colonialism I, pp. 175-81.
Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples – Linda Tuhiwai Smith,
1999
Book | Essential
The SAGE handbook of political geography – Kevin R Cox, Murray Low, Jennifer Robinson,
2008
Book | Essential | Read: Lester, A. Empire, pp. 385-407. eBOOK
ALTERNATIVE FORMAT:
The Sage handbook of political geography – Kevin R Cox, Murray Low, Jennifer Robinson,
2007
Book | Essential | Read: Lester, A. Empire, pp. 385-407. PRINT EDITION
Ruling the World – Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2020-12-16
Book | Essential
2. Essential Reading (2 items)
Capitalism & slavery – Eric Eustace Williams, 1994
Book | Essential | Read Chapter 5
Anti-Slavery and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Clare Midgley, September 1993
Article | Essential
2. Recommended Reading (3 items)
The problem of freedom : race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 –
Thomas C Holt, 1992
Book | Recommended
Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1 – Thomas L. Haskell,
1985-04
Article | Recommended
Capitalism and the origins of the humanitarian sensibility, part 2 – Thomas L Haskell, June
1985
Article | Recommended
Ruling the World – Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2020-12-16
Book | Recommended
Week 3 (3 items)
3. Essential Reading (2 items)
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean – Marina Carter, September 2006
Article | Essential
The British empire: sunrise to sunset – Philippa Levine, 2020
Book | Essential | Read Chapter 5: ‘Britain in India’
3. Recommended Reading (1 items)
Honour in Opium? The British Declaration of War on China, 18391840 – Glenn Melancon,
1999
Article | Recommended
Ruling the World – Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2020-12-16
Book | Recommended
4. Essential Reading (2 items)
Indigenous networks : mobility, connections and exchange – 2014
Book | Essential | Read: Lester, Alan. Chapter 2: ‘Indigenous Engagements with
Humanitarian Governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and Humanitarian
Space’
Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas – Rob Skinner, Alan Lester, 2012
Article | Essential | Read Introduction
4. Recommended Reading (3 items)
Geographies of colonial philanthropy – David Lambert, Alan Lester, June 2004
Article | Recommended
Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance : protecting aborigines across the
nineteenth-century British empire – Alan Lester, Fae Dussart, 2014
Book | Recommended | Read Introduction
Ruling the World – Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2020-12-16
Book | Recommended
Week 5 (12 items)
5. Essential Reading (4 items)
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire – Alan Lester, Autumn 2002
Article | Essential
Humanism, race and the colonial frontier – Alan Lester, January 2012
Article | Essential
Drawing the global colour line : white men’s countries and the international challenge of
racial equality – Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds, 2008
Book | Essential | eBOOK Read Introduction
Drawing the global colour line: white men’s countries and the international challenge of
racial equality – Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds, 2008
Book | Essential | Read Introduction
5. Recommended Reading (8 items)
Victorian attitudes to race – Christine Bolt, 2007
Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION
The idea of race in science : Great Britain 1800-1960 – Nancy Stepan, 1982
Book | Recommended
Victorian attitudes to race – Christine Bolt, 2007
Book | Recommended | eBOOK.
The souls of Black folk – W. E. B. Du Bois, 2016
Book | Recommended | eBOOK
The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries – Ieuan Griffiths, July 1986
Article | Recommended
The souls of Black folk – W. E. B. Du Bois, 2012
Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION. Other ed.s available at the same shelf-mark
Settler colonialism, George Grey and the politics of ethnography – Alan Lester, June 2016
Article | Recommended

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