History in Focus: Empire - List of Reviews

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Reviews in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. As well as featuring reviews of individual books, Reviews in History also contains review articles that examine a range of books available on a highlighted topic. The reviews listed below are arranged under the following themes:		Photo reproduced with permission from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
General Acquiring colonies and empires Governing empires Economics of empire Cultures of imperialism Science, medicine and empire Decolonisation
General Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Niall Ferguson Reviewed by Andrew Porter A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660-1800 Philip Lawson Reviewed by Robert Harris Acquiring colonies and empires England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688/ Britain's Colonial Wars 1688-1783 Bruce Lenman Reviewed by Peter J. Marshall Rivalry in Southern Africa: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy Matthew Seligmann Reviewed by Annika Mombauer Author's Response Governing empires Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France Edited by Amanda Sackur and Tony Chafer Reviewed by William Gervase Clarence-Smith Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c.1700-1964 Edited by David Killingray and David Omissi Reviewed by Ian Beckett Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917 Geoffrey Hosking Reviewed by Peter Gatrell Author's Response Ireland and Empire Stephen Howe Reviewed by Patrick Maume Author's Response Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War Sebastian Balfour Francisco J. Romero Salvadó Author's Response Economics of empire Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 Kenneth Morgan Reviewed by David Richardson The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770 David Ormrod Reviewed by Pieter Emmer Cultures of imperialism Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Reader Edited by Catherine Hall Reviewed by Elizabeth Buettner The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England 1715-1785 Kathleen Wilson Reviewed by Sarah Richardson Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power Julia Bush Reviewed by Clare Midgeley Author's Response Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire David Cannadine Reviewed by Peter J. Marshall Science, medicine and empire Green Imperialism : Colonial Expansion , Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism , 1600-1860 Richard Grove Reviewed by Bill Luckin Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism Sheldon Watts Reviewed by Michael Worboys Author's Response Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement Jane Buckingham Reviewed by Mark Harrison Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism James H. Mills Reviewed by Satadru Sen Author's Response Decolonisation British Government Policy and Decolonisation 1945-1963 Frank Heinlein Reviewed by John Kent Author's Response Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal Reviewed by Peter J. Marshall Authors' response Visit the Reviews in History section of this website for a full list of reviews and articles on a diverse range of topics. January 2004