Historiography

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. This fifth and final volume examines the historiography of empire, investigating the shape and development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries. It discusses the ways in which public pressures, current events, the personal backgrounds of authors, theexisting literature, and even the nature of university and library development have influenced writings about empire broadly, and the British Empire specifically.

Robin Winks is Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History at Yale University.

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.

List of Contributors
1: Introduction
2: The First British Empire
3: The Second British Empire
4: British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
5: The American Revolution
6: Ireland
7: The British West Indies
8: Canada and the Empire
9: Australia and the Empire
10: Colonization and History in New Zealand
11: India to 1858
12: India, 1858-1937
13: India in the 1940s
14: Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
15: Pakistan's Emergence
16: Science, Medicine, and the British Empire
17: Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire
18: Exploration and Empire
19: Missions and Empire
20: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition
21: The Royal Navy and the British Empire
22: Imperial Defence
23: The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars
24: Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands
25: Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia
26: The British Empire in South-East Asia
27: Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East
28: Informal Empire in Latin America
29: Britain and the Scramble for Africa
30: The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s
31: West Africa
32: East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative
33: Central and Southern Africa
34: Decolonization and the End of Empire
35: The Commonwealth
36: Art and Empire
37: Architecture in the British Empire
38: Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire
39: The Shaping of Imperial History
40: The Future of Imperial History
41: The Way Forward
Chronology, Index