Postscript. Interdisciplinary Dialogue And Lucknow’s Cultural System by Sandria Freitag

“…The inclusiveness essential to claiming legitimacy by a Successor State not only helps to explain how this new Janus-faced kingdom could succeed, but enabled it to bequeath flexible strategies that worked for local urban dwellers under British imperial rule, and provided models of creativity for responding to altered contexts of life in contemporary India. …”
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Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain. by Tuffnell, S

“…More importantly, what role would anti-slavery play in the British imperial world system? These questions, and their manifold legacies, are the focus of Richard Huzzey's compelling account of British Anti-Slavery.…”

The Black Tent (1956) and Bengazi (1955): The Image of Arabs in Two post-Empire Journeys into the Deserts of Libya by Richard Andrew Voeltz

“…Both films contain redemptive dramatic journeys into the deserts of Libya involving the loss of British imperial male power.  The case studies of The Black Tent and Bengazi show the beginnings of new post-empire film genres and new mentalities toward the Arab “Other” that partially promotes a decolonization of western cinema.…”
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Querying the Origins of Orientalism: Recent Approaches to the History of Representations by Zoltán Biedermann

“…Both books set out to respond to Said from a distance, by exploring stories of pre-British imperial knowledge making in Asia. Whilst the focus in Catholic Orientalism is on Portuguese (and some Italian, Spanish and French) materials, Europe’s India casts its net more widely also to include British writings. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: LAURENCE TALAIRACH, "ANIMALS, MUSEUM CULTURE AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN NINETEENTH - CENTURY BRITAIN: CURIOUS BEASTIES", LONDON, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2021, 309 P. by Ioana-Maria ALEXANDRU

“…Exploring the discourses of zoology and palaeontology in relation to children’s literature, Talairach shows, through extensive examples, the development and proliferation of animal-centred books for the younger readership, as well as the distinct moral and ethical paths such literary works forged in the context of British imperial expansion. The fascination, or rather the “obsession”, with classification, control and possession of knowledge characteristic of the second half of the eighteenth century, lasting well into the late Edwardian period in Britain, was accentuated by the rising presence of newly discovered animals, or “beasties”. …”
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Punishment in an Early Colonial Society: The Inglorious History of Wellington Gaol, 1844–1931 by Rebekah Bowling ((Kāi Tahu), John Pratt

“…Second, it had a functional importance in terms of the way it represented the ability of the colonial government to subdue any recalcitrant who sought to challenge the authority of British imperial power. Third, its closure came about because of longstanding pressure from local citizens, for whom its presence had become an unwanted stain on the otherwise untainted local landscape, reflecting New Zealand’s transition from a frontier society to a modern society with the sensibilities associated with it.…”
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BOOK REVIEW: LAURENCE TALAIRACH, "ANIMALS, MUSEUM CULTURE AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN NINETEENTH - CENTURY BRITAIN: CURIOUS BEASTIES", LONDON, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2021, 309 P. by Ioana-Maria ALEXANDRU

“…Exploring the discourses of zoology and palaeontology in relation to children’s literature, Talairach shows, through extensive examples, the development and proliferation of animal-centred books for the younger readership, as well as the distinct moral and ethical paths such literary works forged in the context of British imperial expansion. The fascination, or rather the “obsession”, with classification, control and possession of knowledge characteristic of the second half of the eighteenth century, lasting well into the late Edwardian period in Britain, was accentuated by the rising presence of newly discovered animals, or “beasties”. …”
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The “Oriental Renaissance” in the Pacific: Orientalism, Language and Ethnogenesis in the British Pacific by Tony Ballantyne

“…This paper suggests that the “Oriental Renaissance” was a crucial, often overlooked, thread in the intellectual life of the Australasian colonies. British imperial networks, together with the circulation of learned periodicals and monographs, ensured that British Orientalism profoundly shaped the intellectual culture of nineteenth century New Zealand and that it was particularly prominent in debates over the origins and identity of Maori. …”
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Slavery, antislavery, political rivalry and regional networks in East African waters, 1877-1883 by Edward A. Alpers

“…Locally, my context is the Comoro Islands; regionally, it takes in the Mozambique Channel and wider southwest Indian Ocean; globally, it is the larger British imperial antislavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean. …”
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LOCKE Y LAS LEGITIMACIONES BRITÁNICAS DE DOMINIO: DEL ARGUMENTO DE LA AGRICULTURA AL DE LA MEJORA DE LA NATURALEZA by Eva Botella Ordinas

“…It shows how later claims to the region included Locke’s argument and how this argument was instrumental and did not reflect British imperial reality, but it was linked to British imperial ideology.…”
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COLONIAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE ZULU REBELLION, 1906 by PS Thompson

“…In the Zulu Rebellion of 1906, the Natal Militia defeated the Zulu rebels without British imperial forces having to intervene in the conflict. …”
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European colonial empires and Victorian imperial exceptionalism by Middleton, A

“…It argues that, throughout the Victorian era, most comparisons with the transoceanic empires of the major Continental states strongly emphasised the distinctive, and superior, character of British imperial expansion and rule. Writers buttressed their assertions of British exceptionalism with a battery of arguments about history, national character, policy, and commercial arrangements, and above all with claims about the proper role of the state in imperial expansion and government. …”

The birth of the mandate idea and its fulfilment in Iraq up to 1926 by Mejcher, H

“…<p>This thesis traces the mandate concept as embodied in Art. 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations as an intrinsic feature of the British Imperial mind. Therefore the purview of our study is British imperial thinking and policy making during and after the First World War. …”

National trauma work and the depiction of women in two Afrikaans historical Karoo novels: <i>Fiela’s child</i> and <i>Sorg</i> by Belinda Du Plooy

“…The novels were written and published during the late-apartheid and early post-apartheid years, 1985 and 2006, respectively, and as a result of these dynamics of production, they also engage with the socio-politics of this time, maybe even more so than with the British imperial colonialist period in which the novels are set. …”
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The Global Career of Indian Opium and Local Destinies by Amar Farooqui

“…It attempts to understand the manner in which local destinies were linked to the global, reinforcing and/or resisting British imperial interests. For this purpose I have chosen the port of Daman, on the West Coast of India as a representative example. …”
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Mozambickie zmagania Portugalczyków w czasie I wojny światowej by Krzysztof Kubiak

“…The intention of the author of this text is to show Portuguese actions in an objective manner, not burdened with the British imperial narrative. It serves, above all, the use of Portuguese materials. …”
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Making bodies modern: race, medicine and the colonial soldier in the mid-eighteenth century by Charters, E

“…The expansion of British imperial warfare during the middle of the eighteenth century provided motivation and opportunity for observations on British and native forces. …”

‘The Jews of Ceylon’: antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon by Wettimuny, S

“…By tracing the connections between antisemitism and anti-capitalism, this article aims to contribute to a broader discourse on the positions of Semitic groups in British imperial ideology.…”

Gandhi: A man for our times? by Judith M. Brown

“…Gandhi, particularly the way he addressed the nature of India and its problems as British imperial rule ended. It also focuses on Gandhi's critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual's search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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North American Counterterritoriality: Nineteenth-Century Black Activism and Alternative Legal Spatiality by Nele Sawallisch

“…The activism by Black communities along the border that emerged from the crises to save fugitives from being returned to bondage, this contribution shows, enacted a form of counterterritoriality that called on the British imperial center to challenge the legality of slavery, introducing alternative forms of “legal spatiality.”…”
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