Race, Nation and Empire

Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Keith McClelland is a Research Associate on the Legacies of British slave-ownership project, Department of History, University College London

• Notes on contributorsIntroductionPart I: Liberal historiesKaren O’Brien, ‘Empire, history and emigration: From enlightenment to liberalism’Theodore Koditschek, ‘Narrative time and racial/evolutionary time in nineteenth century British Liberal imperial history’Marilyn Lake, ‘“Essentially Teutonic”: E A Freeman, Liberal race historian. A transnational perspective’C. A. Bayly, ‘Empires and Indian Liberals’Part II: Twentieth-century historiesSaul Dubow, ‘Keith Hancock, race, and empire’Bill Schwarz, ‘“Englishry”: The histories of G. M. Trevelyan’John MacKenzie, ‘Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English worlds? The historiography of a four nations approach to the history of the British empire’Sonya O. Rose, ‘Who are we now? Writing the postwar “nation”, 1948–2001’Part III: The time of the presentKathleen Wilson, ‘The nation without: Practices of sex and state in the early modern British empire’Antoinette Burton, ‘Getting outside of the global: Re-positioning British imperialism in world history’Geoff Eley, ‘Imperial imaginary, colonial effect: Writing the colony and the metropole together’Index

'An interesting, useful volume.'Northern History, 2013 L (I)