This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.
Author(s): Stephanie Barczewski, Martin Farr
Series: Britain And The World
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 424
Tags: Imperialism And Colonialism, Imperial History
Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The ‘MacKenzian Moment’ Past and Present (Stephanie Barczewski)....Pages 3-14
Foreword: The Moving Frontier of MacKenzie’s Empire (Stuart Ward)....Pages 15-22
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
Exhibiting the ‘Strangest of All Empires’: The East India Company, East India House, and Britain’s Asian Empire (John McAleer)....Pages 25-45
“Jumboism Is Akin to Jingoism”: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Elephant Craze of 1882 (Peter Yeandle)....Pages 47-74
Popular Imperialism and the Textual Cultures of Empire (Justin D. Livingstone)....Pages 75-96
Projections of Empire: The Architecture of Colonial Museums in East Africa (Sarah Longair)....Pages 97-120
Swinging Imperialism: Days in the Life of the Commonwealth Office, 1966–1968 (Martin Farr)....Pages 121-168
Front Matter ....Pages 169-169
Scottish Landed-Estate Purchases, Empire, and Union, 1700–1900 (Stephanie Barczewski)....Pages 171-188
Electoral Politics and Lord Seaforth as a Landed Proprietor in Scotland and as Governor of Barbados (Finlay McKichan)....Pages 189-209
Making John Redmond ‘the Irish [Louis] Botha’: The Dominion Dimensions of the Anglo-Irish Settlement, c. 1906–1922 (Donal Lowry)....Pages 211-235
Pro-Empire Sentiment in Twentieth-Century Scotland Before Decolonisation (Esther Breitenbach)....Pages 237-260
What Has the Four Nations and Empire Model Achieved? (Andrew Mackillop)....Pages 261-283
Front Matter ....Pages 285-285
Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch West Indies (Douglas Hamilton)....Pages 287-309
Chartism in the British World and Beyond (Fabrice Bensimon)....Pages 311-335
Lumumba’s Ghost: A Historiography of Belgian Colonial Culture (Matthew G. Stanard)....Pages 337-359
‘The Brightness You Bring into Our Otherwise Very Dull Existence’: Responses to Dutch Global Radio Broadcasts from the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s (Vincent Kuitenbrouwer)....Pages 361-381
MacKenzie-ites Without Borders: Or How a Set of Concepts, Ideas, and Methods Went Global (Berny Sèbe)....Pages 383-401
Afterword (John Darwin)....Pages 403-407
Back Matter ....Pages 409-421
