Empires and Decolonizations Research Hub

Books written or edited by Hub members:

Richard Drayton

• Ed. with Saul Dubow, Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century (London, 2020)
• Whose Constitution? Law, Justice and History in the Caribbean (Port of Spain, 2016)
• Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' World (London and New Haven, 2000)

Max Edling

• Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the U.S. Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2021 [Audiobook Tantor Media, 2021]).
• Co-edited with Peter Kastor, Washington’s Government: Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration (University of Virginia Press, 2021).
• The Creation of the Constitution (American Historical Association and the Institute for Constitutional Studies, 2018)
• .A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State 1783-1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
• A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (Oxford University Press, 2003 [pbk 2008]).

Bérénice Guyot-Réchard

• Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-62 (Cambridge, 2016)
• Ed. With Elisabeth Leake, South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Leiden, forthcoming)

Peter Heather

• The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Orion, 2005).
• Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development, and State Formation in the First Millennium (Orion, 2009).
• Rome Resurgent: War & Empire in the Age of Justinian (OUP, 2018)
• Christendom: Triumph of a Religion (Penguin, 2022 forthcoming).
• With John Rapley, WHY EMPIRES FALL: America, Rome and the Decline of the West (Penguin, in press).

Jean Smith

• Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom (Manchester, 2022)

Sarah Stockwell

• Co-edited with Véronique Dimier, The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa (Palgrave, 2021)
• The British End of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• Co-edited with L.J. Butler, The Wind of Change. Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
• Ed., The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume III: Economics and Politics
• Co-edited with Robert Holland, Ambiguities of Empire. Essays in Honour of Andrew Porter (Routledge, 2009).
• Ed., The British Empire. Themes and Perspectives (Blackwell, 2008)
• The Business of Decolonisation. British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Co-edited with S.R. Ashton, Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice, 1925-45 (British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 1, HMSO, 1996).

Jon Wilson

• The Domination of Strangers. Modern Governance in Eastern India, c.1785-1830 (2008)
• India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2016) (published in North America as The Chaos of Empire. The British Raj and the Conquest of India

Jim Bjork 

• Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland (University of Michigan Press, 2008)
• Creating Nationality in Central Europe,1880-1950: Modernity, violence, and belonging in Upper Silesia, eds. Tomasz Kamusella, Jim Bjork, Tim Wilson, and Anna Novikov (Routledge, 2016)

Ruth Craggs 

• Craggs, R. and Neate, H. (forthcoming, 2022) Decolonising geography? Disciplinary histories and the end of the British empire in Africa Under contract with RGS-IBG Wiley-Blackwell series.
• Craggs, R. and Wintle, C. (2016) eds. Cultures of Decolonisation: Transnational productions and practices, 1945-1970 Manchester University Press, Manchester, 274 pp Link

David Edgerton 

• The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (Penguin, 2019).

Jonathan Fennell

• Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
• Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign: Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Satvinder S. Juss

• Bhagat Singh: A Life in Revolution (Penguin, July 2022)
• The Execution of Bhagat : Heresies of the Raj (Harper Collins 2021)

Sundeep Lidher

• Lidher, S. (2021). British Citizenship and Immigration Policy, 1945 - 1962. (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.78803.

Mark Lunney 

• A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945: England’s Obedient Servant? (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Javed Majeed 

• Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2019)
• Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2019)
• Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (2009)
• Autobiography, Travel, and Postnational Identity: Nehru, Gandhi and Iqbal (2007)
• Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (1992)

Chris Manias

• Race, Science and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany, 1800-1914 (Routledge, 2013).

Justine McConnell 

• Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2023)
• Co-authored with Fiona Macintosh: Performing Epic or Telling Tales (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Stephen Morgan

• Book (forthcoming): Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)

Michael Rowe

• Michael Rowe (ed.), Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800–1815 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
• Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780–1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Michael Rowe (eds), War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Simon Sleight 

• Simon Sleight and Shirleene Robinson (eds), Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World (Palgrave, 2016).

Agnieszka Sobocinska 

• Agnieszka Sobocinska, Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Agnieszka Sobocinska, Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2014.
• David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska (eds.), Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, Crawley WA: UWA Press, 2012.

Christopher Knowles 

• Christopher Knowles Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

Camilo Erlichman and Christopher Knowles (eds)

• Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Theodora Broyd

• “Self-Identification in French nationals of Algerian descent today”

Jasper Heeks

• The spread of 'genus larrikin': overseas reaction to deviant and delinquent Australian youth, 1870-1940.

Sheridan Humphreys

• After The Secret River - Towards a ‘Whether to’, ‘How to’ and ‘Why to’ For ‘Majority’ Screenwriters of ‘Minority’ Leading Roles (Thesis & Screenplay).

Sandip Kana 

• Voluntary Institution Building in India: Non-state interventions in technical education and training, 1905-1958.

Elanor Kramer-Taylor

• The Duties of Exile: decolonisation, nationalism and the Caribbean Left in Britain, 1945-1974.

Matthew Kwok

• Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism, Indigenous Peoples, and the British Empire, 1840-1914.

Jen-Chieh Lin

• Decolonising “an Empire of the Silent Dead”? The Imperial (Commonwealth) War Graves Commission and the end of the British empire, 1950-1980.

Shankar Nair

• Small-scale and Unorganised Industries in Late Colonial India, 1900-47.

Martin Pugh

• A Cuba off the East African coast?: Zanzibar, Britain and the Cold War, 1963-65.

David A. Williams 

• Britains and the Sea: Maritime Landscape and English Identity in the Long 19th Century.

Williams David

• 'Victorian Identity and the Sea: Imagining the Nation in Banal Maritime Art’ in Roberts Emma (ed), Art and the Sea (Liverpool University Press, 2022).