MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History

Stephanie Barczewski is Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of History at Clemson University, USA.  Her most recent publication is Heroic Failure and the British (2016).Martin Farr is Senior Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, UK. He teaches and writes on British politics and public life since 1914.

• Part I Introduction.- 1. Stephanie Barczewski, The MacKenzian Moment Past and Present.- 2. Stuart Ward, The Moving Frontier of MacKenzie’s Empire.- Part II The Cultural Impact of Empire.- 3. John McAleer, Exhibiting the “Strangest of all Empires”: The East India Company, East India House, and Britain’s Asian Empire.- 4. Peter Yeandle, The Patriotic Pachyderm: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Jumbomania of 1882.- 5. Justin D. Livingstone, Popular Imperial Fiction and the Textual Cultures of Empire.- 6. Sarah Longair, Projections of Empire: The Architecture of Colonial Museums in East Africa.- 7. Martin Farr, Swinging Imperialism: Days in the Life of the Commonwealth Office, 1966-1968.- Part III Four-Nations History.- 8. Stephanie Barczewski, Scottish Landed-Estate Purchases, Empire, and Union, 1700-1900.- 9. Finlay McKichan, Electoral Politics and Lord Seaforth as a Landed Proprietor in Scotland and as Governor of Barbados.- 10. Donal Lowry, Making John Redmond an “Irish Louis Botha”:The Dominion Dimensions of the Anglo-Irish Settlement, c.1906-1922.- 11. Esther Breitenbach, Pro-Empire Sentiment in Twentieth-Century Scotland before Decolonisation.- 12. Andrew MacKillop, What Has the Four-Nations and Empire Model Achieved?.- Part IV Global and Transnational Perspectives.- 13. Douglas Hamilton, Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch West Indies.- 14. Fabrice Bensimon, Chartism in the British World and Beyond.- 15. Matthew G. Stanard, Lumumba’s Ghost: A Historiography of Belgian Colonial Culture.- 16. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, ”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.- 17. Berny Sèbe, MacKenzie-ites without Borders: Or How a Set of Concepts, Ideas, and Methods Went Global.- 18. John Darwin, Afterword.-