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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
have also been calls for a more comprehensive social and cultural history of decolonisation. 18 Increasingly, this challenge is being met. Over the last twenty years, for example, there has been a proliferation of writings on the pervasive impact of decolonisation on British society. Contributions to Manchester University Press’s Studies in Imperialism series, and the pioneering work of the founding
legacy at the end of empire that is best understood through an interdisciplinary lens. This volume is inspired by the intersecting work of historians, literary critics and cultural theorists, and particularly by John MacKenzie’s ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series. As these collective efforts have demonstrated that imperialism constituted a ‘core ideology’ in British society from the 1880s to the 1950s, we
broad field of ‘imperial migration’ and, in so doing, to show how this ‘new’ migration scholarship is helping to develop and deepen our understanding of the British World. The volume is appropriately published in the ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, which, for over twenty-five years, has assiduously promoted the comparative and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of empire and its impact on British
. 48 Paul Kennedy, ‘The Theory and Practice of Imperialism,’ Historical Journal , 20, 3 (1977), pp. 761–9. 49 The titles in John Mackenzie’s Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series are indicative of the wide domestic impact of imperialism. See also