Savage Visit

Kate Fullagar

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 3
• In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of "savages" from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving perio... Lees meer

Cooperative Rule

Aaron Windel

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late Briti... Lees meer

Imperial Encore

Caroline Ritter

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of... Lees meer

Liberalism in Empire

Andrew Stephen Sartori

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the Britis... Lees meer

The Afterlife of Empire

Jordanna Bailkin

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually c... Lees meer

Liberalism in Empire

Andrew Stephen Sartori

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the Britis... Lees meer

Problem of Great Importance

Karl Ittmann

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 7
• This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempte... Lees meer

Smyrna's Ashes

Michelle Tusan

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 5
• Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century i... Lees meer

The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 1
• In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature... Lees meer

Saving the Children

Emily Baughan

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save th... Lees meer

Are We Rich Yet?

Amy Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• An in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British soc... Lees meer

Serving a Wired World

Katie Hindmarch-Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally inte... Lees meer

Distant Strangers

James Vernon

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 9
• What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Stra... Lees meer

Drag

Jacob Bloomfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• "A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."--​ Publishers Weekly A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in mo... Lees meer

Pathological Bodies

Corinna Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 6
• This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolut... Lees meer

Distant Strangers

James Vernon

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 9
• What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Stra... Lees meer

Participant Observers

Freddy Foks

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the dis... Lees meer

Thinking Black

Rob Waters

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 14
• It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start "thinking black." As state and society consolidated around a rev... Lees meer

Participant Observers

Freddy Foks

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the dis... Lees meer

Black Handsworth

Kieran Connell

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 15
• In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban are... Lees meer

Imperial Encore

Caroline Ritter

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies
• In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of... Lees meer

Dilemmas of Decline

Ian Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley British Studies | nr. 2
• In just three decades, Great Britain's place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world's preeminent imperial power with global inte... Lees meer