South Africa and the High Commission Territories during the Second World War: Politics and Policies Affecting War Mobilization by Deborah Shackleton

“…Much of what will be discussed in this paper must be understood in the context of British imperial organization and demands as formulated and dictated by the Colonial Office in London with coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner in South Africa who was responsible for the overall care and protection of the HCT. …”
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Gentlemen revolutionaries: power and justice in the new American Republic, 1781-1787 by Cutterham, T

“…A new American ruling class began to constitute itself through these strategies and ideas during the 1780s, replacing structures of British imperial rule. It did so in response to threats from popular and (white male) egalitarian politics—that is, class struggle and class formation drove each other. …”

Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by Konstantin M. Dolgov, Elena I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. Policy and culture have traditionally been considered almost incompatible spheres of human activity as policy tended to become more and more severe, cynical, "dirty", while culture aspired to develop supreme values and perfect ideals. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. Policy and culture have traditionally been considered almost incompatible spheres of human activity as policy tended to become more and more severe, cynical, "dirty", while culture aspired to develop supreme values and perfect ideals. …”
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The Sovereign, the Law and the Two British Empires by Ian Duncanson

“…To its practical question, ‘is this a valid law?’ the British imperial world was ready for the Benthamite answer. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by Konstantin M. Dolgov, Elena I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. Policy and culture have traditionally been considered almost incompatible spheres of human activity as policy tended to become more and more severe, cynical, "dirty", while culture aspired to develop supreme values and perfect ideals. …”
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The Raffles Museum, Singapore, 1823-1960 : performativities of British colonial rule by Ang, Eiselt Chin Siew

“…Most importantly, it ignores the larger questions of British imperial trade, its geopolitics, as well as Raffles’s ambitions vis-à-vis this trade. …”
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Between the courts of Lahore and Windsor: Anglo-Indian relations and the re-making of royalty in the nineteenth century by Atwal, R

“…This study effectively de-centres the British imperial official as the primary agent in Anglo-Indian elite encounters, and goes further to demonstrate that whether in the case of the connections between royal personages, or in the ties between ‘monarchy, nation and empire’, the capability for royal agency to shape the nature of such relationships evolved over time and was a consistently contested matter.…”

Emergency in Malaya 1948-1960 - What was the turning point?: The case of election in Selangor by Paidi, Zulhilmi

“…However, this view is debatable as it is believed by the Malays now that the British action was taken deliberately to fulfil the idea of colonialism.When the British claimed the need to retain the Malay status quo, they actually wanted to leave the Malays behind economically.At the same time, the foundation of a new plural society where previously a single community had dominated was a way to hold back any Malays struggle against the colonial power.1 It was clear the new ethnic diversity created tensions that were exacerbated by economic and political inequalities.This environment was conducive to the emergence of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP).2 The Communists sought to capitalise on the unrest, in order to fulfil their aim of creating a Communist Republic of Malaya.They terrorised the country and people of Malaya for twelve disastrous years, to achieve their great ambitions.It became the Communist insurrection which was one of the most important events in the history of Malaya under the British colonial rule.The insurrection was one of the toughest threats the British imperial power had ever faced in Malaya since 1824, when they officially started their colonisation of the Malay Peninsula.The insurrection, which resulted in Emergency rule, was the first British communist struggle after the end of the Second World War.One of the Malay states which experienced a severe threat from the MCP was the State of Selangor.Selangor, together with Pahang, Perak, Johor and Negeri Sembilan, were among the worst affected places during the Emergency.…”
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Collecting worlds: biocultural comparison and the HMS Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 by Gilbert, DL

“…Positing that the <i>Beagle</i> voyage occurred during a key transitional moment in British imperial history, this thesis finds that the expedition’s ethnographic and scientific work built upon collecting and exhibitionary practices associated with Europe’s early natural history institutions, herbariums, gardens, and zoos. …”

The rule of strangers: empire, Islam, and the invention of "politics" in Egypt, 1867–1914 by Omar, H

“…I then examine how British imperial perceptions of despotism and the Egyptian subject on which it was predicated determined their programme of reform as well as generated theory for an academic 'Science of Politics' in Britain. …”

Nature’s empire: the Darwinian idiom in late Victorian international thought by Butcher, CE

“…Finally, I undertake an analysis of journalism and colonial administration to explore the percolation of such Darwinian notions into quotidian British imperial discourse and practice.</p> <p>Genealogically, I argue that Darwinism’s radically flat worldview challenges IR’s interpretation of nineteenth-century international order as sharply bifurcated and governed by a ‘<em>standard of civilisation</em>’. …”

The Atlantic at work: Britain and South Carolina's trading networks, c. 1730 - 1790 by David, H

“…Disputes between British merchants and their Carolinian correspondents reflected in microcosm the geo-political shifts of the time and reveal at an inter-personal level how resistance to British imperial authority developed among Carolinians. …”

Ephemera and the British Empire by Tomkins, D, Jackson, A

“…Here a typology of ephemera will be outlined together with a sample of the different types of material that the collection offers the scholar of British imperial and cultural history.…”

Imperial Questions and Social Identities by Lauren Banko

“…It demonstrates how local, regional and international actors stopped framing Palestinian nationality as part of wider Ottoman and British imperial questions and arrived instead at varied understandings of this status as a national question. …”
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Why Alberta Needs a Fiscal Constitution by Ted Morton

“…This reform would remove an outdated relic of 19th century British imperial rule and give Canada what is already the norm other mature federal states. …”
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Why Alberta Needs a Fiscal Constitution by Ted Morton

“…This reform would remove an outdated relic of 19th century British imperial rule and give Canada what is already the norm other mature federal states. …”
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Why Alberta Needs a Fiscal Constitution by Ted Morton

“…This reform would remove an outdated relic of 19th century British imperial rule and give Canada what is already the norm other mature federal states. …”
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From empire to empire: The collapse of British America and the rise of imperial republicanism, 1773-1812 by Taylor, TD

“…The American ideology of republican empire was an outgrowth of an earlier British imperial identity. The Northwest Ordinance ultimately created the American territorial system and established what I argue is a two-tiered system of empire: the Union of States (a federal empire of equals) and the subordinate dependent territories.…”