Volume 1: PEOPLE
Clare Anderson 2016
Transnational Histories of Penal Transportation: Punishment, Labour and Governance in the British Imperial World, 1788-1939
Barbara Bush 2010
African Caribbean Slave Mothers and Children: Traumas of Dislocation and Enslavement across the Atlantic World
Caroline Drieënhuizen 2016
Social Careers Across Imperial Spaces: An Empire Family in the Dutch-British World, 1811-1933
Jonathan Hyslop 2009
Steamship Empire: Asian, African and British Sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880-1945
David Killingray, 2008
'A Good West Indian, a Good African, and, in Short, a Good Britisher': Black and British in a Colour-Conscious Empire, 1760-1950
Gary Kynoch, 2003
Controlling the Coolies: Chinese Mineworkers and the Struggle for Labor in South Africa, 1904-1910
Claire Lowrie 2013
White Men and their 'Chinese Boys'
Emily Manktelow 2014
The Rise and Demise of Missionary Wives
John Maynard, 2015
'Let us go' . it's a 'Blackfellows' War': Aborigines and the Boer War
Carina Ray, 2009
'The White Wife Problem': Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa
Elke Stockreiter 2015
British Perceptions of Concubinage and the Patriarchal Arab Household: The Reluctant Abolition of Slavery in Zanzibar, 1890s-1900s
Alistair Thomson, 2003
I live on my memories: British return migrants and the possession of the past
Wendy Webster 2012
The Empire Comes Home: Commonwealth Migration to Britain
Volume 2: PLACES

Ellen Boucher 2009
The Limits of Potential: Race, Welfare, and the Interwar Extension of Child Emigration to Southern Rhodesia
John Carroll 2006
Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place
Swati Chattopadhyay 2014
Politics, Planning and Subjection: Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Public Space in Colonial Calcutta, in City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space, (eds) Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White
Vinita Damodoran 2013
'Natural Heritage' and Colonial Legacies: India in the Nineteenth Century
David Lambert and Philip Howell 2003
John Pope Hennessy and the Translation of 'Slavery' between late nineteenth-century Barbados and Hong Kong
Alan Lester 2014
Place and Space in British Imperial History Writing, in The Routledge History of Western Empires (eds.) Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie
John MacKenzie 2008
Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English Worlds? A Four-Nation Approach to the History of the British Empire
Sandra Manickam 2009
Common Ground: Race and the Colonial Universe in British Malaya
David Nally 2008
"That Coming Storm": The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine
Tillman Nechtman 2011
'. For it was founded upon a Rock': Gibraltar and the Purposes of Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Simon Potter 2008
Who Listened When London Called? Reactions to the BBC Empire Service in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, 1932-1939
Agnieszka Sobocinska 2016
Following the "Hippie Sahibs": Colonial Cultures of Travel and the Hippie Trail
Philip Stern 2006
British Asia and British Atlantic: Comparisons and Connections
Volume 3: PRINCIPLES
David Arnold 1987
Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague, 1896-1900
Bain Atwood 2014
Law, History and Power: The British Treatment of Aboriginal Rights in Land in New South Wales
Emily Baughan 2013
'Every Citizen of Empire Implored to Save the Children!' Empire, internationalism and the Save the Children Fund in inter-war Britain
W. J. Berridge 2014
Imperialist and Nationalist Voices in the Struggle for Egyptian independence, 1919-22
Patrick Brantlinger 1997
Thomas Henry Huxley and the Imperial Archive, in Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays (ed.) Alan P. Barr
Peter Cain 2012
Character, 'Ordered Liberty', and the Mission to Civilise: British Moral Justification of Empire, 1870-1914

Elizabeth Elbourne 2008
Religion in the British Empire, in The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (ed.) Sarah Stockwell
Jeff Guy 2003
The Colenso Daughters: Three Women Confront Imperialism, in The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration, (ed.) Jonathan A. Draper
Dane Kennedy 2012
The Great Arch of Empire, in The Victorian World (ed). Martin Hewitt
Paula Krebs 1992
'The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars': Women in the Boer War Concentration Camp Controversy
Marc Matera 2010
Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain
Nicholas Owen 2012
"Facts Are Sacred": The Manchester Guardian and Colonial Violence, 1930-1932
Milla Schofield 2009
Enoch Powell Against Empire: The 'New Commonwealth', the Kenyan Asian Crisis and the Burdens of the Past, in The British Empire and Its Contested Pasts (eds.) Robert J. Blythe and Keith Jeffery
Volume 4: POLICIES AND PRIORITIES

Sunil Amrith 2008
Food and Welfare in India, c. 1900-1950
David M. Anderson 2011
Mau Mau in the High Court and the 'Lost' British Empire Archives: Colonial Conspiracy or Bureaucratic Bungle?
Antoinette Burton 2000
Tongues Untied: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy
Mary Des Chene 1999
Military Ethnology in British India
Catherine Hall 1994
Rethinking Imperial Histories: The Reform Act of 1867
Richard Huzzey 2012
When is a Slave Not Really a Slave?
Will Jackson 2013
Dangers to the Colony: Loose Women and the "Poor White" Problem in Kenya."
Christine Kinealy 2006
At Home with the Empire: The Example of Ireland, in At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (eds.) Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose
Erik Linstrum 2012
The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898-1960
Lenore Manderson 1999
Public Health Developments in Colonial Malaya: Colonialism and the Politics of Prevention
Robert Moore 2000
The Debris of Empire: The 1981 Nationality Act and the Oceanic Dependent Territories
Douglas Peers 2009
'The more this foul case is stirred, the more offensive it becomes": Imperial Authority, Victorian Sentimentality, and the Court Martial of Colonel Crawley, 1862-4
Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo 2011
Uncovering the 'Virginity Testing' Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History
Carol Summers 1991
Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production of Reproduction in Uganda, 1907-1925
Megan Vaughan 2005
Mr Mdala Writes to the Governor: Negotiating Colonial Rule in Nyasaland
Kathleen Wilson 2011
Rethinking the Colonial State: Family, Gender, and Governmentality in Eighteenth-Century British Frontiers

Philippa Levine is Professor of History, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author or editor of many books on Britain's empire, including Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain (2009) and The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset (2007).

The British Empire: Critical Readings brings together the essential writings to have been published to date on the history of Britain's Empire. As such, it offers scholars and students a broad comprehensive set of texts through which to understand diverse aspects of British colonial rule.
The four thematic volumes that make up this resource include key material drawn from journal articles and book chapters and include a substantial introductory essay to contextualise the collections. Each volume includes both recent scholarship and influential older scholarship central to understanding debates that continue to animate the field.
The volumes are arranged thematically by People, Places, Principles and Policies and Priorities, and range over the entirety of the colonial period, with a focus on c. 1750 to c.1960 when British imperial power was at its height. The set will be organised to demonstrate the very different approaches that have informed this vibrant field, allowing for as much emphasis on cultural as on political history, on non-elites as well as leaders and on collaboration with, as well as resistance to, the imposition of colonial rule.
This will be an essential addition to libraries and a major scholarly resource for those working on imperialism and colonialism, on British history and on world history.