Administering the Empire, 1801-1968

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968
Author: Mandy Banton
Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

This important new guide is an introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs, and now held in The National Archives of the United Kingdom. It covers the period from about 1801 to 1966.It has been planned as a user-friendly guide concentrating on the organisation of the records, the information they are likely to provide and how to use the contemporary finding aids. It also provides an outline of the expansion of the British empire during the period, and discusses the organisation of colonial governments.

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives of the UK

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives of the UK
Author: Mandy Banton
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2015-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781909646124

This guide is an updated version of Mandy Banton's indispensable introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs, and now held in The National Archives of the United Kingdom. It covers the period from about 1801 to 1966. It has been planned as a user-friendly guide concentrating on the organisation of the records, the information they are likely to provide and how to use the contemporary finding aids. It also provides an outline of the expansion of the British empire during the period and discusses the organisation of colonial governments.

Ruling the World

Ruling the World
Author: Alan Lester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108426204

Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

Distant freedom

Distant freedom
Author: Andrew Pearson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781383855

This book is a study of the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena and its role in the abolition of the slave trade.

The State of Freedom

The State of Freedom
Author: Patrick Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2013-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107328284

What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.

Legal Histories of the British Empire

Legal Histories of the British Empire
Author: Shaunnagh Dorsett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317915747

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.

Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire

Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire
Author: Keith Hamilton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1836242123

Throughout the nineteenth century, British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. This collection of essays examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression.

Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century

Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Trevor Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199898316

The first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life.

Landmark Cases in Equity

Landmark Cases in Equity
Author: Charles Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2012-07-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319750

Landmark Cases in Equity continues the series of essay collections which began with Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (2006) and continued with Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (2008) and Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (2010). It contains essays on landmark cases in the development of equitable doctrine running from the seventeenth century to recent times. The range, breadth and social importance of equitable principles, as these affect commercial, domestic and even political matters are well known. By focusing on the historical development of these principles, the essays in this collection help us to understand them more clearly, and also provide insights into the processes of legal change through judicial innovation. Themes addressed in the essays include the nature of the courts' equitable jurisdiction, the development of property rights in equity, constraints on the powers of settlors to create express trusts, the duties of trustees and other fiduciaries, remedies for breach of these duties, and the evolution of constructive and resulting trusts.

The Deepest Dye

The Deepest Dye
Author: Aisha Khan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674987829

How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured ÒcoolieÓ laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent. Indentureship continued from 1838 until its official end in 1917. The Deepest Dye begins on post-emancipation plantations in the West IndiesÑwhere Europeans, Indians, and Africans intermingled for work and worshipÑand ranges to present-day England, North America, and Trinidad, where colonial-era legacies endure in identities and hierarchies that still shape the post-independence Caribbean and its contemporary diasporas. Aisha Khan focuses on the contested religious practices of obeah and Hosay, which are racialized as ÒAfricanÓ and ÒIndianÓ despite the diversity of their participants. Obeah, a catch-all Caribbean term for sub-Saharan healing and divination traditions, was associated in colonial society with magic, slave insurrection, and fraud. This led to anti-obeah laws, some of which still remain in place. Hosay developed in the West Indies from Indian commemorations of the Islamic mourning ritual of Muharram. Although it received certain legal protections, HosayÕs mass gatherings, processions, and mock battles provoked fears of economic disruption and labor unrest that lead to criminalization by colonial powers. The proper observance of Hosay was debated among some historical Muslim communities and continues to be debated now. In a nuanced study of these two practices, Aisha Khan sheds light on power dynamics through religious and racial identities formed in the context of colonialism in the Atlantic world, and shows how today these identities reiterate inequalities as well as reinforce demands for justice and recognition.