British Empire. These territories included the settler colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania, as well as the strikingly different domain of India. Several historians have stressed the importance of Dilke's book
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 105–117 (13 total)
On Vertical Alliances, ‘Perfidious Albion’ and the Security Paradigm
Reflections on the Balfour Declaration Centennial and the Winding Road to Israeli Independence
Arie M. Dubnov
lost. Once we read the Declaration as a first step in the project of building the institutions of a nation-state that is divorced from the British Empire – that august, world-spanning institution, which fragmented fast after 1945 until it finally
In European Judaism
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- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 67–110 (44 total)
Ruin of Empire
The Uganda Railway and Memory Work in Kenya
Norman Aselmeyer
Abstract
This article is concerned with the memory of the Uganda Railway in Kenya. Built during the heyday of British imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial railway has been a highly contested infrastructure. Drawing on museum exhibitions, public speeches, and publications, the article argues that the main narrative of the railway line as a tool of oppression began to change when the railway infrastructure gradually deteriorated in the mid-twentieth century. I show how three distinct groups (white expatriates, Kenyan-Asians, and Kenya's political elite) were involved in creating a new public memory that popularized the Uganda Railway as a cornerstone of the postcolonial nation. Their uncoordinated but simultaneous efforts toward a new reading of the past all aimed, albeit for different reasons, at reimagining the nation. The article thus shows mechanisms of coming to terms with the colonial past in a postcolonial nation.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 14–32 (19 total)
The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness
Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
Caroline Elkins
decades of liberal imperialist ideas and practices that had matured across the British Empire would descend and consolidate in the most dramatic and consequential of ways. The reach and impact of these ideas and practices, as well as the individuals
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–90 (13 total)
“Be Prepared!” (But Not Too Prepared)
Scouting, Soldiering, and Boys’ Roles in World War I
Lucy Andrew
Riddle of the Sands (1903). Anxieties about the future security of the British Empire were exacerbated by the notion of physical deterioration, highlighted by the 1904 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration . This study
On the Trails of Free-Roaming Elephants
Human-Elephant Mobility and History across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands
Paul G. Keil
History of Mizoram In the mid-nineteenth century, the mountainous region of northeast India was stereotyped by the British Empire as an uncivilized frontier. Some parts were identified on colonial maps simply as “Wild Tribes” and described as being
Michael Hughes
, concern grew in Britain about the threat it posed to the British Empire, with the result that, by the start of the twentieth century, popular attitudes towards Russia were becoming more positive and views of Germany more negative. The establishment of the
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
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- 119–138 (20 total)
Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
The Rabban Yochanan Ben-Zakai Synagogue and the Sephardi Community of Jerusalem, 1900–1948
Reuven Gafni
synagogues throughout the country—including the great Ashkenazi synagogue in Tel Aviv—the Rabban Yochanan Ben-Zakai synagogue now held prayers almost regularly for the well-being of the British Empire. These included sermons by its religious, political and
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 134–157 (24 total)
“A Land of Limitless Possibilities”
British Commerce and Trade in Siberia in the Early Twentieth Century
Janet Hartley
This article looks at the prospects and the reality of British commercial activity in Siberia in the early twentieth century, before the outbreak of World War I, and is based on contemporary comments by travelers, businessmen, and commercial agents. Contemporaries agreed that the dynamic Siberian economy opened up opportunities for British exports and trade. British firms, however, lagged behind commercial rivals, in particular in Germany, and the United States. The article explores the reasons for this and also looks at the subjects of the British Empire who went to Siberia and the conditions under which they worked. The article demonstrates the vibrancy of Siberian economic development in this period and the active participation of Western powers in this process.
Susanne Grindel
Taking as its starting point the current debate over the significance of history in the National Curriculum for England, this article examines the place of the country's colonial past in its national culture of memory. In the context of debates about educational policy and the politics of memory concerning Britain's colonial heritage, the author focuses on the transmission and interpretation of this heritage via school history textbooks, which play a key role in the politics of memory. This medium offers insight into transformations of the country's colonial experience that have taken place since the end of the British Empire. School textbooks do not create and establish these transformations in isolation from other arenas of discourse about the culture of memory by reinventing the nation. Instead, they reflect, as part of the national culture of memory, the uncertainties and insecurities emerging from the end of empire and the decolonization of the British nation's historical narrative.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 33–49 (17 total)