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, 2003), p. 2. See also, Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002); Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose (eds), At Home with Empire: Metropolitan Cultures and the Imperial World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); and the Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series. 7 Benita Parry cited in Antoinette Burton, ‘Who needs the
books demonstrate the commitment of the ‘Studies in Imperialism Series’ to this important historiographical trend, emphasising materiality, ritual, monuments, memory, and various ways of visualising and imagining empire. 56 It is quite clear that many more such studies will follow. It is hoped that the essays in Exhibiting the Empire will make a significant contribution to such developments, while also
this book brings the number of titles in the ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series close to ninety, a very considerable tribute to a large number of authors and editors who have contributed works, as well as to Manchester University Press. Individual acknowledgments appear at the end of each chapter. Notes 1 J. and J. Comaroff
Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia is the third volume we have edited for Manchester University Press’s ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series around the previously understudied theme of monarchy – the institution of the crown, the activities of individual sovereigns and other members of royal families, and the culture of royalty – in colonial contexts. The chapters in Crowns and Colonies revealed some of the ways European and non-European monarchies came into contact around the world in the colonial age, particularly at the time that imperial powers were
contributors to his Studies in Imperialism Series.6 MacKenzie and his collaborators examine how a range of media, institutions, organizations, and cultural forms constructed and propagated an “imperial vision” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.7 In addition to MacKenzie, the genealogy of the New Imperial History goes back to Edward Said’s highly influential work Orientalism.8 According to Said, Europeans came to base their own sense of identity on hierarchical racial differences. Modern European identity was the product of the “othering” of colonized
Introduction That media is central to John MacKenzie’s intellectual interests is apparent from any reading of his first two foundational books in the Studies in Imperialism series, as well as from his subsequent writings (and indeed the works of several other contributors to the Series). It is also explicitly acknowledged in early mission statements, where we read how the
attention they now give to the British royal family overseas. The topic of royalty is notable by its omission from the original five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire (1998–99) and, before this collection, as an explicit topic in the Studies in Imperialism series published by Manchester University Press since 1984. Now there is a growing body of scholarly work that examines the role
moves in this direction (albeit one framed as global, rather than imperial, history), but there have been wider developments too. For example, recent work on empire and metropolitan culture – as embodied in the ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series of which Empire and Mobility is part – includes recent books such as Markku Hokkanen’s Medicine, Mobility and the Empire . 9 Likewise, themes of flow and circulation have been apparent in research on empire informed by postcolonial approaches. In Moving Subjects , for example, Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton make an
and Popular Culture (Manchester 1986) were among the earliest statements of the influence of empire upon metropolitan culture and national identities. Many detailed studies have appeared in the Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, numbering eighty volumes. Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose (eds), At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the
pejorative connotation. 19 See for instance, in the ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, J. M. MacKenzie, Propaganda and Empire (Manchester, 1984); MacKenzie (ed.), Popular Imperialism and the Military and European Empires and the People (Manchester, 2011); J. Richards (ed.), Imperialism