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Severing the Sinews of the Spanish Empire: British Naval Policy and Operations Regarding the Silver Fleets during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–1740 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Shinsuke Satsuma
In studies on the War of Jenkins’ Ear, a conflict between the British and Spanish empires, historians tend to focus on colonial expeditions, such as those against Porto Bello and Cartagena. On the ...
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Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus: Rupert Gunnis, the ‘Uncrowned King’, and his Sudden Downfall The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Nicholas Stanley-Price
Britain’s systems of imperial administration provided ample opportunity for self-seeking individuals to exploit. I argue that the career of Rupert Gunnis (1899–1965) in colonial Cyprus is one such ...
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Unmasking the Colonial Past: Memory, Narrative, and Legacy The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sara Mechkarini, Dega Siân Rutherford, Berny Sèbe
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2023)
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‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ellen Smith
Analysing how British women and men in nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial South Asia made ‘theatre’ or ‘spectacles’ of everyday life in personal correspondence, this article examines the fou...
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Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Amina Zarzi
This article examines the ways in which past colonial figures, who emerged against the backdrop of the nineteenth-century conquest of North Africa, still resonate and are celebrated in contemporary...
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Engraved Stories of Empire: An Examination of Selected Images from the Missionary Register, 1813–1855 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sam Antony Kocheri Clement
Images are created not in a vacuum but in hidden yet potent, contending political forces. The missionary endeavour of the nineteenth century was not exempt from this reality. Images became integral...
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Political Disillusionment and the Fine Line Between Independence and Neo-colonialism in Early Post-colonial Africa: A Literary and Historical Perspective from Senegal with Aminata Sow Fall The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Lilian Dooshima Dugguh
Focusing on the role of the French empire in the emergence of political disenchantment in the early post-independance Francophone African society, this paper draws from Aminata Sow Fall’s literary ...
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Farewell to Tensions for Post-independence Algerian and Nigerian Populations: ‘Hybrid Affirmation’ as a Postcolonial Proposition The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sourour Salhi
Through the novels of Maissa Bey’s Bleu Blanc Vert and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, this article examines the legacy of colonialism on post-imperial societies. Both novels engage with the...
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Notes on Contributors The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-16
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2023)
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Emigration, War and Reconstruction: Imagining the International Dispersal of Britain in the 1940s The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Adam Page
Debates about reconstruction in Britain at the end of the Second World War included proposals to migrate up to half of the country’s population across the Dominions. The advocates for mass migratio...
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Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–1932 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jingwei Xu
This article reconstructs the place of ‘self-determination’ and its conjunct, ‘minorities’ rights,’ as legal languages in the history of Iraq from the British occupation until its League of Nations...
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The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Swati Chattopadhyay
This article is an invitation to shift the analytic focus of empire to its small spaces. Bringing one aspect of the trade history of British India – the trade in European provisions and foodstuff –...
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‘The Veil of Mystery:’ Imperial Intelligence in the Arabian Peninsula The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jessi A. J. Gilchrist
This article contributes to the growing body of literature on intelligence in empire by examining British and Italian intelligence networks as imperial infrastructures in the Arabian Peninsula. Sin...
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Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John L. Hennessey, Janne Lahti
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)
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To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914) The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Diana M. Natermann
ABSTRACT During the High Imperialism era, it was not unusual that Nordic Europeans took up colonial positions in African colonies. Given the high number of Swedish citizens in the Congo Free State, this paper analyses the written and visual ego-documents of those who worked there as missionaries, soldiers, steamboat captains or traders. The presented sources include diary entries, letters and a photograph
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Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Raita Merivirta
ABSTRACT The British East African Protectorate began enticing white settlement to the country in early twentieth century. This article focuses on the white settler identity and experience of a Nordic couple, Bror and Karen Blixen, in colonial East Africa in the 1910s, when they shared ownership of a coffee farm near the Ngong Hills. Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke was related to the Swedish royal family
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Nordic Connectors: The Gallen-Kallela Family and Colonial Lives in East Africa and New Mexico The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Janne Lahti
ABSTRACT This article tracks the movements of Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela and his family across transimperial terrain in the early twentieth century in British East Africa and New Mexico in the United States. It shows that Nordic peoples, even from countries without colonies of their own, acted as mobile transmitters of knowledge in the world of empires, as respectable bourgeois connectors
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Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Aleksi Huhta
ABSTRACT In the early twentieth century, around forty Finnish families settled in Cuba as part of a larger settler migration from North America and Northern Europe. The Finns mostly settled in two American farming colonies, one near Itabo (Matanzas province), the other in Omaja (Oriente). The prominently working-class Finns usually came to Cuba from the U.S., where they had lived as labourers. In Cuba
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The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Victor Wilson
ABSTRACT The relatively minor imprint Sweden had on the transatlantic slave trade has been seen as one of the consequences of Sweden being a ‘failed empire’. This conception is misleading. By utilising a transimperial perspective on new research findings, the article shows that there was no lack of ambition among Swedish entrepreneurs in the context of the slave trade. The relative lack of Swedish
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Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Carl-Gösta Ojala
ABSTRACT This article explores Sámi mobilities and immobilities within colonial power dynamics. Discussing voluntary and involuntary Sámi mobilities across borders, it also touches on Sámi early modern material objects in motion, as well as the collecting and exchange of Sámi ancestral remains. Recent homecomings of Sámi material culture and ancestral remains – as part of cultural revitalisation, repatriation
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Notes on Contributors The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-05
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)
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The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Alan Lester
ABSTRACT The British Empire has been politicised to an extent that many of us could never have predicted just a few years ago. The colonial past features especially prominently in the right wing-oriented press, where attempts to inform the public about the realities of colonialism are fiercely resisted in a ‘culture war’ against those labelled as ‘woke’. This culture war is sponsored in part by elements
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On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Nigel Biggar
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2023)
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‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nandini Sundar
The framing of the Indian Constitution (1946-50) was a pivotal moment in the history of indigenous communities (colloquially adivasis, officially scheduled tribes) and their relationship with the s...
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Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Helle Jørgensen
ABSTRACT When India gained independence in 1947, its Independence Day ceremonies became a prototype setting the standard for marking and ritualising imperial withdrawal and achievement of sovereignty in former colonies across the world. Since then, much has been written on the cultural, social and political significances of the annually recurrent celebration of the postcolonial world’s many Independence
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Drinking for Development: Transformation of the Beer Hall System in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Maurice Hutton
A common feature of colonial towns in Africa was the ‘beer hall’, serving traditional sorghum beer under municipal monopoly to the African labour force. This system was designed with a dual purpose...
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Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Nicholas Ferns
The 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is often presented as a pivotal moment in the post-Second World War relations between the Global North and Global South. At this conference,...
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Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Gerold Krozewski
ABSTRACT This essay analyses the shifting rationales of official British aid policy between the sterling crisis of the late 1940s and the oil crisis of 1973-74. In spite of changes during the transition from the colonial empire to independent states at the time, the period shows considerable continuities in Britain’s aid policy, conceptions of development, and approaches to external economic and financial
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‘Isolated British Europeans’: How EEC Membership Helped the Gibraltarians Secure British Citizenship, 1962–1981 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Thomas Norton
The ‘European’ strand of modern Gibraltarian identity, exemplified by the territory’s 96 per cent ‘Remain’ vote in the 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum, owes much to the fact that joining the EEC with Brit...
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Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898) The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Stéphanie Prévost
This article examines British refuge to Ottoman Armenians in the aftermath of the 1894–1897 Hamidian massacres, an episode absent from the historiography of Britain and refuge, and largely from his...
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Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Rajarshi Mitra
ABSTRACT This article explores the debates on film exhibition and censorship during the war years in India. The First World War (1914–18) was a watershed moment for the rapidly burgeoning cinema exhibition business in India. During the war, the government of India was caught by surprise at the pace with which the business had spread in the country. When the need for cinema propaganda arose in India
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The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Stuart C. Aveyard
Scholarly disagreements over the applicability of a colonial framework to Ireland’s relationship with Britain have neglected how political actors perceived or used ideas about colonialism and imper...
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Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–1838 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Stephen Mullen
ABSTRACT This article provides the first systematic exploration of pro-slavery collaborations between British outport and metropole from the American War of Independence in 1775 to the abolition of plantation slavery in 1834–1838. Examination of a group of individuals commercially involved with the Caribbean trades including absentee planters, merchants, merchant-proprietors and returned sojourners
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Interrogating Orientalism: Hindu Festivals and Travellers’ Tales in the Colonial Indian Ocean The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Crispin Bates, Marina Carter
ABSTRACT Thimithi – the Tamil Hindu fire-walking ceremony has always attracted the attention of the curious and the thrill seeker and remains a tourist attraction as well as the performance of a solemn vow in many parts of the world where it continues to be enacted. A source of much speculation as to the participants’ apparent ability to withstand the pain of walking over hot coals, travellers’ often
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Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Lachlan Fleetwood
ABSTRACT In the early nineteenth century, Suez was not the only possibility for a shortcut between Britain and its rapidly expanding Indian empire. Serious consideration was also given to a route via Mesopotamia. In 1835, the lavishly funded Euphrates Expedition set out to determine the suitability of the river for steam navigation, assess the political complications, and complete maps and natural
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From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’: Africa and the Global Radical-Right in the Geographical Imagination of UDI-Era Rhodesian Propaganda, 1962–1970 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Niels Boender
This article argues that, in the wake of decolonisation across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, white Rhodesia's rulers shifted their political allegiances to a new Southern African bloc, allied to righ...
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‘”A Damnable Blaze”: John Loader Maffey, the North-West Frontier and the Abduction of Mollie Ellis, 1919 – 1923’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Jayne L. Gifford
On 14 April 1923, an attack upon the bungalow of Major Ellis in Kohat on India’s North-West Frontier, resulted in the murder of Mrs Ellis and the abduction of their seventeen-year-old daughter, Mol...
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Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–64 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Brooks Marmon
ABSTRACT The rapid collapse of European empires in Africa transformed the politics of the white settler dominated states at the south of the continent. In what briefly remained ‘British Central Africa’, the rise of sovereign states created a new sphere of political competition between white officials and their anti-colonial nationalist opponents. White authorities, while perturbed by imperial retreat
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Philip Murphy
ABSTRACT On the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, her son inherited the Crown of the United Kingdom and that of 14 other Commonwealth Realms, as well as the title of ‘Head of the Commonwealth’. The complex network of relationships this entails is poorly understood by the public, the media and increasingly by policy-makers. Our ability to analyse how it has operated over the course of the
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Small Wars and Pacification in the British Empire: A Case Study of Lushai Hills, 1850–1900 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Kaushik Roy
ABSTRACT The British Empire was at the height of its power in the late nineteenth century. Most scholars focus on imperial expansion. However, not much light has been shed on the process of consolidation, which I term pacification. This paper tries to cover this historiographical slip by making a case study of British pacification of the Lushai Hills of North-East India. While analysing this micro
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‘A High Tory and an American upon my own Principles’: James Boswell, the American Revolution, and Royalist Constitutionalism, 1775–1783 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Zachary Brown
ABSTRACT In the early 1770s, American revolutionaries argued that the British Empire was a federation of autonomous states united by the person and prerogatives of the King. This royalist vision of empire, often called ‘dominion theory,’ has been the subject of considerable scholarly work but little has been done to examine how metropolitan advocates for royal power – British Tories – responded to
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‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–1850 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-09-02 John McAleer
ABSTRACT In 1849, John Colpoys Haughton embarked for a period of rest and recuperation at the Cape of Good Hope. This article uses correspondence between Haughton, an Indian army officer in South Africa, and his family in Britain to explore personal experiences of furlough and to foreground the role of the Cape Colony as a site of recovery and recuperation. Haughton’s example emphasises the importance
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Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Ichiro Maekawa
ABSTRACT This study examined the British response to the Soviet Union’s expansion and the rapid onset of the Cold War in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Soviet Union considered ‘The Third World’ the primary battlefield of the Cold War and took advantage of the international trend of anti-colonialism to exert pressure on the West. At the same time, the Soviet Union promised
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End of Empire and the Bomb: Britain, Malaya and Nuclear Weapons, 1956–57 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Matthew Jones
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the repercussions of remarks made by Duncan Sandys, the British Minister of Defence, at a press conference held in Canberra in August 1957 which suggested that British nuclear weapons were going to be deployed to airbases in Malaya. Against the background of the negotiations that had led to the Anglo-Malayan defence agreement, and with Malaya on the cusp of independence
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Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–1960 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Sibanengi Ncube, Tinashe Nyamunda
ABSTRACT Drawing on archival material from the National Archives of Zimbabwe, Adam Matthews Digital Archives and newspaper reports, this study locates Southern Rhodesia’s tobacco industry within post-war currency developments and the politics of international trade. Following the Second World War, the shift in the financial balance of economic power triggered by the shift from the gold standard to
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‘Pen Pals – the Significance of the Release of the “Palace Letters” in Australia’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-29 H. Kumarasingham
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 50, No. 4, 2022)
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Interracial Sex as Taboo: The New Imperialism, Christian Victorian Values, Nationalism, and the Legacies of Intimacy in the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1861–1914 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Nigel Browne-Davies
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of interracial sexual relationships in the Colony of Sierra Leone during the era of the new imperialism between 1870 and 1914. Although British anxieties about interracial sexual relationships and mixed-race progeny were evident before the era of the new imperialism, it was in the late nineteenth century that British imperial and colonial authorities created
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The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–1836 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Leigh Muffet
ABSTRACT The Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa was the largest European port on the continent for several hundred years. Despite its centuries-long importance, the Cape and its role in the rise of nineteenth-century globalisation remains largely unexamined and our dominant analytical frameworks have been constructed from a Northern Hemisphere perspective focused on Europe, Asia and North
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Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Yaqoob Khan Bangash
ABSTRACT Anglo-Indians are often overlooked in the discourse on the independence of India and Pakistan. However, despite their small numbers, Anglo-Indians punched above their weight and had a significant presence in various critical fields, as well as active and robust and political organisations. This paper traces the development of Anglo-Indian politics in the Punjab, a province which (like Bengal)
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‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–55 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Thomas J. Wright
ABSTRACT Between 1952 and 1955, British Administrators in Central Kenya made wide use of livestock seizures and monetary fines known as collective punishments to penalise disloyal communities during the Mau Mau rebellion. Authorities were supported in these efforts by local collaborators drawn from the same communities as the insurgents, known as loyalists, through their support for the appropriateness
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British Power in the Mediterranean: Sea Protests and Notarial Practice in Nineteenth-century Malta The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Giada Pizzoni
ABSTRACT This article investigates British presence in nineteenth-century Malta through the examination of ‘sea protests’: notarised documents that were produced when a ship reached port, which protected ship masters from liability for damages to ship or cargo that occurred at sea. These documents reveal some of the workings of the British Empire showing the complexity of the relationships between
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Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Andonis Piperoglou, Andrekos Varnava
ABSTRACT This article examines the mobile yet chequered imperial career of Hamilton Goold-Adams. Initially serving as a military officer in the India, Ireland, Malta and the West Indies, Goold-Adams rose to distinction in the British imperial administration after serving in Bechuanaland and in the South African War. He then became Governor of the Orange River Colony (1901–1907), High Commissioner of
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‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Ian Duncan
ABSTRACT The franchise enquiry led by Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr) was a central component in the Indian constitutional reform process of the 1930s. This article examines the general context of the enquiry, as well as the specific circumstances, under which it was conducted in both the United Kingdom and the sub-continent. Lothian’s investigation paid special attention to the means by which increased
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Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945) The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Jochen Lingelbach
ABSTRACT During the Second World War, 2,700 Greek refugees lived in camps in Eastern Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. They had escaped from the German Nazi occupation and famine conditions on the Aegean Islands. Their movement through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda was part of a more extensive network of refugee hosting and transfer, orchestrated by British officials
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The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–1902 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Bhadrajee S. Hewage
ABSTRACT This article explores Britain’s decision to intern over 5,000 captured Boer (Afrikaner) combatants on the island of Ceylon from 1900 to 1902 during the South African War. Using hitherto unanalysed source material, this manuscript resolves several unanswered questions regarding the experience of Boer internment in Ceylon itself and whether the internment experience matched Britain’s imperial
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Bringing Murderers to Justice in Late Colonial Burma The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Ian Brown
ABSTRACT For senior British officials in late colonial Burma, an important part of the explanation for the province’s soaring murder rate was the reluctance and often outright refusal of Burmese witnesses to murder to engage with the police and courts in bringing killers to justice. That reluctance or refusal, it was said, substantially reduced the arrest and in particular the conviction rate in murder
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Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Kristine Eck, Chiara Ruffa
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that military training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst was used by the UK in the post-World War II period as a soft foreign policy tool in anticipation of decolonisation. This article builds on this work by first detailing how early attempts to introduce military training for foreign cadets replicated racial hierarchies. Second, it describes how, as the
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Anglo-Krio Relations: A Study of a Disadvantaged Community in a Colonial Setting, 1895–1922 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Festus Cole
ABSTRACT This study examines the nature of Anglo-Krio relations in Sierra Leone between 1895 and 1922, a period that could arguably, be described as the most trying phase in Krio fortunes. It sheds significant light on Sierra Leone’s intellectual history, and provides a window through which the historian could begin to gauge the fortunes of a disadvantaged community seeking to negotiate the strains
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‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–1957 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Robert Barnes
ABSTRACT Historians have lavished enormous attention on British decolonisation but Britain’s post-imperial military relationships with its former colonies have too often been overlooked. The 1947 United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement established as a condition of the island’s independence was the first such military arrangement. Crucially, this agreement was vaguely conceived to serve ‘in the mutual
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Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–1903 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Kristin Brig
ABSTRACT At the end of the nineteenth century, British imperial doctors found that the glycerinated lymph they received from British-based pharmaceutical companies became inert, failing to protect colonial populations against smallpox. Colonial doctors and their British suppliers thus took a fresh look at the preservation media used for lymph as they discovered how different kinds of lymph reacted