British Empire

Bibliography

Overviews

• Bryant, Arthur. The History of Britain and the British Peoples, 3 vols. (London, 1984–90).
• Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2002),
• Hyam, Ronald. Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion (Macmillan, 1993).
• James, Lawrence. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (St. Martin's Griffin, 1997).
• Judd, Denis. Empire: The British Imperial Experience, From 1765 to the Present (London, 1996).
• Lloyd; T. O. The British Empire, 1558-1995 Oxford University Press, 1996
• Louis, William. Roger (general editor), The Oxford History of the British Empire, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1998–99).
• Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1996).
• Olson, James S. and Robert S. Shadle; Historical Dictionary of the British Empire 1996
• Rose, J. Holland, A. P. Newton and E. A. Benians (gen. eds.), The Cambridge History of the British Empire, 9 vols. (Cambridge, 1929–61).
• Smith, Simon C. British Imperialism 1750-1970 Cambridge University Press, 1998. brief

Popular

• Rice, Earle. John Cabot (Profiles in American History Series) Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2006
• Ritchie, Harry; The Last Pink Bits: Travels Through the Remnants of the British Empire Sceptre Press, 1997
• Winchester, Simon; Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire Harper Perennial, 2004

Specialized scholarly studies

• Andrews, Kenneth R., Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630 (Cambridge, 1984).
• David Armitage; The Ideological Origins of the British Empire Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Armitage, David, 'Greater Britain: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?' American Historical Review, 104 (1999), 427–45.
• Armitage, David (ed.), Theories of Empire, 1450–1800 (Aldershot, 1998).
• Charles A. Barone, Marxist Thought on Imperialism: Survey and Critique (London: Macmillan, 1985)
• Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan (eds.), Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (Chapel Hill, 1991)
• Barker, Sir Ernest, The Ideas and Ideals of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1941).
• W. Baumgart, Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1982)
• C. A. Bayly, Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1831 (Longman, 1989).
• Bennett, George (ed.), The Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee, 1774–1947 (London, 1953).
• J. M. Blaut, The Colonizers' Model of the World, London 1993
• Elleke Boehmer; ed. Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature, 1870-1918 Oxford University Press, 1998
• Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988).
• Chris Brooks and Peter Faulkner (eds.), The White Man's Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire (Exeter UP, 1996).
• Constantine, Stephen. "British Emigration to the Empire-commonwealth since 1880: from Overseas Settlement to Diaspora?" Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History [Great Britain] 2003 31(2): 16-35. ISSN 0308-6534
• Philip Darby, The Three Faces of Imperialism: British and American Approaches to Asia and Africa, 1870-1970 (Yale University Press, 1987
• DePalma, Anthony. Here: A Biography of the New American Continent (PublicAffairs, 2001)
• Michael W. Doyle, Empires (Cornell UP, 1986).
• Elliott, J.H., Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
• Firstbrook, P.L. The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of America Bay Books, 1997
• Gould, Eliga H., The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
• Harlow, V. T., The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763–1793, 2 vols. (London, 1952–64).
• Heinlein, Frank. British Government Policy and Decolonisation, 1945-1963: Scrutinising the Officiial Mind Routledge, 2002.
• Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience (Manchester UP, 1990).
• Edward Ingram. The British Empire as a World Power (2001)
• Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Abacus, 1994).
• Robert Johnson. British Imperialism Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. historiography
• Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (London, 1976).
• Kenny, Kevin, ed. Ireland and the British Empire Oxford U. Press 2004.
• Knorr, Klaus E., British Colonial Theories 1570–1850 Toronto, 1944).
• Levine, Philippa, ed. Gender and Empire Oxford U. Press, 2004.
• McDevitt, Patrick F. May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880-1935 Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Mehta, Uday Singh, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago, 1999).
• Morgan, Philip D. and Hawkins, Sean, ed. Black Experience and the Empire Oxford U. Press, 2004.
• Jan Morris, The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and Pax Britannica (Faber, 1982).
• Pocock, J. G. A., 'The Limits and Divisions of British History: In Search of the Unknown Subject', American Historical Review, 87 (1982), 311–36.
• Porter, Andrew. Religion Versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914 Manchester U. Press 2004
• Potter, Simon J. News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press System. Clarendon, 2003
• Rüger, Jan. "Nation, Empire and Navy: Identity Politics in the United Kingdom 1887-1914" Past & Present 2004 (185): 159-187. ISSN 0031-2746
• Spurr, David. The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing and Imperial Administration (Duke UP, 1993).
• Joanna Trollope, Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire (Hutchinson, 1983).
• Wilson, Ian. John Cabot and the Matthew. Breakwater Books, 1996.
• Wilson, Kathleen, ed. A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 Cambridge U. Press 2004.