Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s.

David Lambert is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Peter Merriman is Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth University

1 Empire and mobility: an introduction - David Lambert and Peter Merriman
2 Military print culture, knowledge and terrain: knowledge mobility and eighteenth-century military colonialism - Huw J. Davies
3 A contested vision of empire: anonymity, authority, and mobility in the reception of William Macintosh's Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1782) - Innes M. Keighren
4 The art of travel in the name of science: mobility and erasure in the art of Flinders's Australian voyage, 1801-3 - Sarah Thomas
5 'On their own element': nineteenth-century seamen's missions and merchant seamen's mobility - Justine Atkinson
6 'Easy chair geography': the fabrication of an immobile culture of nineteenth-century exploration - Natalie Cox
7 Consorting with 'others': vagrancy laws and unauthorised mobility across colonial borders in New Zealand from 1877 to 1900 - Catharine Coleborne
8 Trekking around Upper Burma: Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe's exploration of the frontier districts, 1903 - Nuala C. Johnson
9 Reading the skies, writing mobility: on the road with a colonial meteorologist - Martin Mahony
10 Grounded: the limits of British imperial aeromobility - Liz Millward
11 Afterword: westward the course of empire takes its way - Tim Cresswell
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