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While there is no shortage of scholarship on the downstream effects of colonialism, colonial authoritarianism itself remains seriously understudied. This dissertation develops mid-range insights about the “colonial situation” through a three-part exploration of the roles played …
This dissertation examines the ways in which Catholics in the seventeenth-century British Atlantic balanced their competing identities as English, Scottish and Irish subjects and Catholics, despite persecution for their religion. It traces the stories of four groups of Catholics…
This work focuses on the case of a single French slave-trading ship intercepted by the British Navy in the early 1830s off the coast of Sierra Leone, utilizing this case study to examine the broader themes of abolition, emancipation, labor, and identity in the context of early n…
Arms proliferation, following the First World War, presented tremendous problems for British-colonial governance in the Middle East. Specifically, the Iraqi revolt of 1920 against British occupation illustrated a larger problem: how can the imperial government halt arms transfer…
The American Revolution not only marked the end of Britain’s control over thirteen rebellious colonies, but also the beginning of a division among subsequent historians that has long shaped our understanding of British America. Some historians have emphasized a continental appro…
In contrast to previous scholarship, which emphasizes the passing of the union in the period after 1798 or understands the union as an outcome of long-term British politically integrative tendency, this dissertation argues that the British-Irish union of 1801 had economic founda…
From the moment the first reports of violence arrived in London, the Indian Rebellion of 1857 has been used as a backdrop on which politicians, religious leaders, philosophers, rebels, and historians have projected their own views on issues ranging from imperial administration t…
This dissertation studies the role of water in colonial statecraft in late-colonial Kenya. While the economic and political basis of colonial development after World War Two has been fully established, much of the work looking at the implementation of these projects focuses on l…
This thesis examines and contextualises historically significant aspects of the ways in which David Roberts’ lucrative lithographic publication Egypt and Nubia (1846-49) represented the “Orient”. The analysis demonstrates that Roberts used tropes, particularly ruins and disposse…
This thesis will examine the portrayal and reception of ‘novel’ technology as constructed spectacle in the military and popular coverage of the Abyssinian (1868) and Ashanti (1873-4) expeditions. It will be argued that new and ‘novel’ military technologies, such as the machine g…
The First World War allowed for two sources of Pan-Islamism to mature in East Africa: the German Empire and East Africans and the African diaspora. The former had an incentive to develop Pan-Islamism as an element of the 'special feature' policy they were employing to assist in …
Schools, and education more broadly, were pivotal in constructing and maintaining racial difference in the settler colonies of Western Australia and Natal, South Africa. Education must be taken seriously as a way into understanding the intersections between the conflicting, but …
This thesis studies the reportage in the English language press, primarily in Calcutta (but also covering Burma and Britain) of the Second and Third Anglo-Burmese Wars of 1852 and 1885, respectively. The wars were overwhelmingly the result of a combination of aggressive mercanti…
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…
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…
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…