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The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present, these essays consider both individual historians, including such key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock, and also broader themes such as the relationship between liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and cross-cultural analysis. 'Britishness' and what 'British' history is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story: race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of British history. The contributors include some of the most distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake, John M. MacKenzie, Karen O'Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz, Kathleen Wilson.
| ISBN | 0719082668 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780719082665
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 544 | | Publisher | Manchester University Press | | Published in | Manchester | | Imprint | Manchester University Press | | Series title | Neale UCL Studies in British History | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 01 Jul 2010 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 941.0072 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Notes on contributors | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | | | Part I: Liberal histories by Keith McClelland | | 13 | | 1 | | Empire, history and emigration: from Enlightenment to liberalism by Keith McClelland | | 15 | | 2 | | Narrative time and racial/evolutionary time in nineteenth-century British liberal imperial history by Karen O'Brien | | 36 | | 3 | | 'Essentially Teutonic': E.A. Freeman, liberal race historian. A transnational perspective by Theodore Koditschek | | 56 | | 4 | | Empires and Indian liberals by Marilyn Lake | | 74 | | | | Part II: Twentieth-century histories by C.A. Bayly | | 95 | | 5 | | Keith Hancock, race and empire by C.A. Bayly | | 97 | | 6 | | 'Englishry': the histories of G.M. Trevelyan by Saul Dubow | | 117 | | 7 | | Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English worlds? The historiography of a four-nations approach to the history of the British Empire by Bill Schwarz | | 133 | | 8 | | Who are we now? Writing the post-war 'nation', 1948-2001 by John M. MacKenzie | | 154 | | | | Part III: The time of the present by Sonya O. Rose | | 175 | | 9 | | The nation without: practices of sex and state in the early modern British Empire by Sonya O. Rose | | 177 | | 10 | | Getting outside the global: re-positioning British imperialism in world history by Kathleen Wilson | | 199 | | 11 | | Imperial imaginary, colonial effect: writing the colony and the metropole together by Antoinette Burton | | 217 | | | | Index by Geoff Eley | | 237 |
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