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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
9 Drury Lane imperialism Jeffrey Richards W hen it was published in 2004, Bernard Porter’s The Absent-Minded Imperialists created quite a stir. In spite of the weight of evidence to the contrary which has been built up since John MacKenzie published his pioneering studies Propaganda and Empire (1984) and Imperialism and Popular Culture (1986), in the Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series (which now exceeds 100 volumes) and in the work of a myriad of other scholars, he insisted that the working classes in Britain were ignorant of
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
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
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
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
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
, and reintroduce into academic approaches, a colonial mentality and outlook. 27 Yet imperial history, as it developed during the 1970s to 1990s, represented not least by other volumes in the Studies in Imperialism series, has much to gain from a dialogue with the South African historiographical tradition about the nature of imperialism and
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