Writing Imperial Histories

Andrew S. Thompson is Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter

A fitting tribute to Professor MacKenzie’s enormous contribution to modern imperial history. In the spirit of MacKenzie’s expansive vision, this collection works both as a summation of his career and also as a stimulus to further research.'Saul Dubow, Professor of History, Sussex UniversityWith an intellectual and argumentative coherence often missing in edited volumes, "Writing Imperial histories" convincingly blends celebratory introspection with authoritative state of the art-assessments of key themes and methods in the current historiography of Empire.

• Introduction – Andrew Thompson1. The MacKenziean moment in retrospect (or how one hundred volumes bloomed) – Stuart Ward2. The power of culture and the cultures of power: John MacKenzie and the study of imperialism – Cherry Leonardi3. Sex matters: Sexuality and the writing of colonial history – Robert Aldrich4. Exploration, the environment, and empire – Dane Kennedy5. Spatial concepts and the historical geographies of British colonialism – Alan Lester6. Policing the colonial crowd: Patterns of policing in the European empires during the Depression years – Martin Thomas7. Whatever Happened to the Third British Empire?: Empire, nation redux – Mrinalini Sinha8. Media, India and the Raj – Chandrika Kaul9. Empires, diasporas and cultural circulation – Sunil Amrith10. Decolonisation, space and power: Immigration, welfare and housing in Britain and France, 1945–74 – Jim House and Andrew ThompsonAfterword – John Mackenzie Index