Empires in Perspective

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This monograph series publishes volumes that address important dimensions of imperial history, from the early modern world to the twentieth century. Ranging across diverse imperial histories, the series is not limited to any geographical area, state or empire. The editors welcome proposals from political, social, economic and cultural historians, as well as historians of science and political theory. They encourage methodological pluralism, and do not seek to impose any particular conception of historical scholarship. Although books published will be driven by primary research, they seek to address wider questions in the study of imperial history.

Manuscripts should be in the range of 80,000 to 100,000 words. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. Proposals should include a sample chapter.

Send your proposals to:
Caroline Elkins elkins@fas.harvard.edu
Tony Ballantyne tony.ballantyne@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Duncan Bell dsab2@cam.ac.uk
Francisco Bethencourt francisco.bethencourt@kcl.ac.uk
Durba Ghosh dg256@cornell.edu

Readership

Empire and Colonial Studies, History, Political Science, Anthropology

Editorial board

Tony Ballantyne is Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on the interconnections between South Asian and British history, with a particular emphasis on the intellectual and cultural networks that reshaped South Asia in the long nineteenth century, incorporating the region into a larger imperial system of exchange and mobility. In addition to exploring the construction of colonial knowledge within South Asia, his work has traced important connections that linked India to the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Ireland and Britain itself. He is the author of Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World (Duke University Press, 2006) and Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2001 and 2006) and co-editor with Antoinette Burton of Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press, 2005).

Duncan Bell is a University Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 (Princeton, 2007), and has edited a number of books, including Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth Century British Political Thought (Cambridge, 2007); Pessimism, Power, and Global Ethics: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford, 2007); and Memory, Trauma, and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present (Palgrave, 2006). His historical work focuses mainly on the intellectual history of the British empire in the long nineteenth century.

Francisco Bethencourt is the Charles Boxer Professor of History at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London. His research interests include the History of Racism in the Atlantic World; Portuguese Identity; History of the Portuguese-speaking world; Comparative History of the European Expansion; History of the Inquisition (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Iberian colonies). He is the author of Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800 (co-editor) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) ; Inquisition in the Early Modern World (English revised edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006) and L’empire portugais face aux autres empires (co-editor) (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005). Other publications include História da Expansão Portuguesa (co-editor) (5 vols, Lisbon, Círculo de Leitores, 1998-1999); L’Inquisition à l’époque moderne: Espagne, Portugal, Italie, XVe-XIXe siècles (Paris: Fayard, 1995) et al.

Caroline Elkins is the Hugo K Foster Associate Professor of African Studies at Harvard University. Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It was also selected as one of the Economist's best history books for 2005, was a New York Times editor's choice, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Award. She and her research were also the subjects of a 2002 BBC documentary titled, Kenya: White Terror, which was awarded the International Committee of the Red Cross Award at the Monte Carlos Film Festival. Professor Elkins is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. Professor Elkins's current research interests include colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and violence and the decline of the British Empire.

Durba Ghosh is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University, where she teaches courses on modern South Asia, gender, and colonialism. She is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and with Dane Kennedy, co-editor of Decentering Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (Orient Longman, 2006). Her teaching and research interests focus on understanding the history of colonialism on the Indian subcontinent. She has written extensively on gender, culture, law, archives, and colonial governance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India, and is interested in the importance of history in legitimizing anti-colonial struggles. Her current research focuses on popular regional political movements in early and mid-twentieth century India and the ways in which violence against the British colonial state became an important, but underemphasized, form of protest.

Masaie Matsumura is at Otemae University.

Format

The series will consist of scholarly monographs published in hardback and be in the region of 250 pages in length.

Published titles

• Between Empire and Revolution : A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873–1936
• Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860–1920
• Transoceanic Radical, William Duane : National Identity and Empire, 1760–1835
• A Wider Patriotism : Alfred Milner and the British Empire

Forthcoming titles

• Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

  Bruce Buchan

  (June 2008)
• The English Empire in America, 1602–1658: Beyond Jamestown

  L H Roper

  (March 2009)
• India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754–1815

  Kate Marsh

  (April 2009)
• Ireland and Empire, 1692–1770

  Charles Ivar McGrath

  (November 2008)
• Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

  Sarah Irving

  (June 2008)
• Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition

  Christer Petley

  (May 2009)

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