This thesis explores the construction and use of the hijra figure in fictional literature. It argues that hijras are utilised as both symbols of deviance and central points around which wider anti-sociality circulates. In order to contextualise these characters and offer a deepe…
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Imperial powers have employed a range of strategies to establish and then maintain control over foreign territories and communities. As deploying military forces from the home country is often costly – not to mention logistically stretching when long distances are involved – man…
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such account…
During the interwar period, the British insisted that agricultural and technical education were best suited for Africans, preparing them for a life of rural sustenance. However, Africans demanded better and higher education from their imperial rulers or, in the best case, a comp…
Within the greater historiography of European led African colonial militaries, the history of the Gambia Company of the West African Frontier Force is largely unknown. The Gambia Company initially formed in 1902 from a nucleus of Sierra Leoneans. It continued to rely on Sierra L…
This dissertation explores the emergence of three different epidemic diseases in three British colonial cities at the end of the nineteenth century. At first glance these cities – Melbourne, Australia; Bombay, India; and Belfast, Northern Ireland – appear disparate, and their ep…
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man functions as an axis around which writers from former British colonies—Salman Rushdie (India), Tayeb Salih (Sudan), and Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)—construct their own Bildungsromane. This nodal point is possible because Joyce’s …
This dissertation investigates the development and impact of British imperialism in Iran during a period of international rivalry, revolution, world war, and nationalism. Scholars of British involvement in the Middle East have generally restricted their narratives to the highest…
This dissertation explores the interplay between British concerns about colonial governance and masculinity in India between 1780 and 1857. During this period, many Britons believed that their Indian empire was one of "opinion," founded upon their supposed racial and cultural su…
The world economy experienced extensive international economic integration in the second half of the nineteenth century. This period was also the era of imperial expansion and massive capital exports from Britain to the rest of the world. One of the destinations for these gigant…
This thesis examines a longstanding object of scholarly inquiry — the degree and nature of Palestine's distinction from other settler colonies — in light of two developing fields. Some historians now examine the social history of Palestine; others, twentieth-century British colo…
This study is designed to examine the transformations of collective identities in twentieth-century Eritrea in the context of the Italian, British, and Ethiopian empires. Avoiding partisan representations, which see nationalists in the vanguard of emancipatory politics, and impe…
This dissertation examines Britain's attempt to create and maintain a friendly independent state in South Arabia during the period from 1956 to 1967. After the evacuation from Suez in 1956 the Crown Colony of Aden became the centerpiece for British policy in the Middle East. The…
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free themselves from Western imperialism create…
This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial space within the wider currents of English expansion. …
This thesis argues that in the second half of the 19th century, the Iraqi provinces of the Ottoman Empire constituted a frontier of imperial contestation between the Ottoman and British empires. The Ottoman Empire sought establish political hegemony over these far-flung province…
With the prosecution for obscenity of the British publisher Henry Vizetelly in 1888 for publishing English translations of several of the novels of Emile Zola, the British government initiated what might be termed a ‘moral crusade’ to control the reading matter of its colonial s…
This dissertation explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of modern India, by bolstering the British Empire in India, and by informing the Indian nationalist movement. Freemasonry was an ideal imperial “cult”: it did not require that one apostatize one's religion, ye…