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

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781909646124

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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.

Empires of the Mind
Empires of the Mind

Author: Robert Gildea

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 110715958X

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Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

Scandal of Colonial Rule
Scandal of Colonial Rule

Author: James Epstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 110700330X

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A dramatic history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. James Epstein uses the trial of the first governor of Trinidad for the torture of a freewoman of color to reassess the nature of British colonialism and the ways in which empire troubled the metropolitan imagination.

A Short History of British Colonial Policy
A Short History of British Colonial Policy

Author: Hugh Edward Egerton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1351348205

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This volume discusses a short history of British Colonial policy. With all its faults the book represents much reading and some thought. In writing what is, to some extent, a history of opinion, it has been impossible altogether to suppress my own individual opinions. I trust, however that I have not seemed to attach importance to them. In dealing with the later periods, I remembered Sir Walter Raleigh's remark on the fate which awaits the treatment of contemporary history; but obscurity may claim its compensations, and atleast I am not conscious of having written under the bias of personal or party prejudice.

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914
Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914

Author: Robert L. Tignor

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 140087632X

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In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied with the prospect of imminent withdrawal. The second period emphasized programs for such reforms as hydraulic and agricultural modernization, wider education, and urban development. The final period covered the emergence of Egyptian nationalism, whose goals proved incompatible with British rule of Egypt in spite of efforts to deal with nationalism by repression or conciliation. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

What Britain Did to Nigeria
What Britain Did to Nigeria

Author: Max Siollun

Publisher: Hurst & Company

Published: 2024-04-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911723264

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A revelatory account of British imperialism's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.

Beyond the state
Beyond the state

Author: Anna Greenwood

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1784996165

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.

Disrupting Africa
Disrupting Africa

Author: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1009064223

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In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this groundbreaking work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today.

Lineages of Despotism and Development
Lineages of Despotism and Development

Author: Matthew Lange

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0226470709

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Traditionally, social scientists have assumed that past imperialism hinders the future development prospects of colonized nations. Challenging this widespread belief, Matthew Lange argues in Lineages of Despotism and Development that countries once under direct British imperial control have developed more successfully than those that were ruled indirectly. Combining statistical analysis with in-depth case studies of former British colonies, this volume argues that direct rule promoted cogent and coherent states with high levels of bureaucratization and inclusiveness, which contributed to implementing development policy during late colonialism and independence. On the other hand, Lange finds that indirect British rule created patrimonial, weak states that preyed on their own populations. Firmly grounded in the tradition of comparative-historical analysis while offering fresh insight into the colonial roots of uneven development, Lineages of Despotism and Development will interest economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.