This text examines the origins and development of museums in six major regions of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes museum histories in 13 major centres in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and South-East Asia.
This volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
This volume examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the 18th to the 20th centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital for the understanding of the his…
The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognised. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South …
This volume examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the 18th to the 20th centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital for the understanding of the his…
"Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, and how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how t…
"Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, and how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how t…
