This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interw

This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little atten

We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political dominat

Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hyp

The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradig