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SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

ACADEMIC SESSION 2013-2014

HI 4015-SPECIAL SUBJECT IMPERIAL IMPACTS: THE EMPIRE AND

EDWARDIAN BRITAIN, 1899-1914

30 Credits

PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY:

The full set of school regulations and procedures is contained in the

Undergraduate Student Handbook which is available online at your

MyAberdeen page. Students are expected to familiarise themselves not only

with the contents of this leaflet but also with the contents of the Handbook.

Therefore, ignorance of the contents of the Handbook will not excuse the

breach of any school regulation or procedure.

You must familiarise yourself with this important information at the earliest

opportunity.

COURSE CO-ORDINATOR/COURSE TEAM

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Andrew Dilley E-Mail: a.dilley@abdn.ac.uk Office Hours: Monday 1-2, Thursday 9-10. Discipline Administration: Mrs Barbara McGillivray/Mrs Gillian Brown 50-52 College Bounds Room CBLG01 01224 272199/272454 history-ug@abdn.ac.uk

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TIMETABLE

Please refer to the online timetable on MyAberdeen

Note: This schedule may be subject to variation as the course progresses. Week 1 S1: Aims and Objectives & Presentations S2: Edwardian Britain and the Empire: Context and Overview Week 2 S3: Imperial Impacts: Interpretations and Approaches S4: Introducing the Edwardians: Some Sources. Week 3 S5: The Economy and the Empire: Patterns, Costs, and Benefits S6: Popular Imperialism? Empire in Every Day Life Week 4 S7 The South African War and its repercussions S8 Ideas of Race and Empire, 1895-1914 Week 5 S9: Anti-Imperialists, the Left, and Empire S10: Humanitarianism, Missions, and ‘Slavery’ Week 6 S11: Chamberlain and Tariff Reform, 1903-1906 S12: Politics and Empire, 1901-1910 Week 7: S13: National Efficiency and Social Reform, 1903-1910 S14: Childhood and Empire Week 8 S15: Migration S16: Gender and Empire Week 9 S17: London: Imperial Metropolis? S18: Archive Session (TBC) or Scotland and Empire

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Week 10 S19: Mock Exam S20: Scotland and Empire or Defence and the Empire Week 11: Conclusion S21: Revision and Feedback on Mock Exam S22: Concluding Debate: Imperial Britain?

Week 12: Revision Week1

Students can view the University Calendar at

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/students/13027.php

COURSE DESCRIPTION

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain possessed a global empire

of unprecedented size and diversity. How (if at all) did connection with this

vast and complex entity shape life in Britain at the dawn of the twentieth

century? This question has been the subject of lively debate in recent years

and lies at the heart of this course. During the course it will be approached

from a number of different angles:

Was the empire a focus for British identity/identities?

What effects did the empire have on ideas and experiences of race,

gender and class?

Did the empire make Britons wealthier, and if so who?

To what extent did empire feature in politics of the period?

To what extent was the empire’s impact regionally diverse?

INTENDED AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Heavy emphasis will be placed on a number of key scholarly debates as well as

a wide range of primary sources. Key aims and learning outcomes include:

1 Note that it is possible the schedule in weeks 10-12 may be revised and that seminars may be

held in Week 12.

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To examine the inter-relationships between Britain’s role as a global power

and the wealth, identity, and politics of its inhabitants

To acquire an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of

historiographical debates surrounding the impact of imperialism on early

twentieth-century Britain

To develop a basic familiarity with the major political, social, cultural, and

economic developments in Edwardian Britain

To consider this topic from a range of angles and through this to

appreciate the diversity of both the empire and Britain

To develop a critical awareness of the complexity of key concepts,

especially ‘empire’, ‘impact’, and ‘Britain’

To acquire an awareness of the major issues involved in working with

primary materials.

This course will develop your Graduate attributes:

Academic Excellence: Through critical engagement with a complex and rich

area of study.

Critical Thinking and Communication: Again through critical engagement

with, and discussing and presenting ideas on, a rich historical topic.

Learning and Personal Development: By requiring a high level of

independent study along with team work with other students in group

work.

Active Citizenship: Considering the relationships between British society

and the British empire has powerful resonances in the present.

LECTURE/SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Seminars are held twice a week. Attendance at tutorials is compulsory and

will be monitored. Failure to attend will result in the withdrawal of the Class

Certificate. The first week will introduce the course, discuss practicalities, and

provide some background on the Empire in the Edwardian Period. The second

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week will offer a chance to examine the key themes running through the

course, and introduces the primary sources. Subsequent sessions will focus on

particular topics, normally and increasingly led by students, often

accompanied by a student presentation.

Presentations In the second seminar all students will be allocated a topic to

present on. In most seminars, the topics will be introduced by brief students

presentations. Students are expected and encouraged to discuss their

presentation, in advance, with the course co-ordinator. Everyone will read the

assigned material for the presentation. Students may make use of PowerPoint

in their presentations. Presenters are expected to provide:

An overview of the topic under discussion

Discussion of the main historiographical arguments concerning that

topic

Consideration of the topic in the context of the course as a whole

The presentation ought not only to summarize but also to present an

argument within your presentation. Presentations should last no more than

20 minutes (which approximately equates to 2,000 words typed).

Presentations, along with essays, are essential preparation for the exam.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND WEEKLY READINGS

Introductory Texts

Secondary

Key Lines of Interpretation

J. M. MacKenzie, Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester, 1986). Idem, Chapters in W. R. Louis (ed), Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 4

and 5. A. S. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain

from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Harlow, 2005). B. Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists (2005) S. J. Potter, ‘Empire, Cultures and Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-

Century Britain’, History Compass, 5 (2007) Essays by Hall and Howe in S. Stockwell, British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (Oxford, 2009)

British History

G. R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886-1914 (2004) P. Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-90 (London, 1997), chs 1 and 2 C. C. Wriggley (ed), A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2007) M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 (1982; new edns 1993 and 2002) A. O’Day, The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability, 1900-1914 (London,

1979). (Many useful essays, esp by Porter and Cain) D. Read, Edwardian England, (1972) (one chapter on WEB-CT)

British Imperial History W. R. Louis (gen ed.), Oxford History of the British Empire, (1999) vol. 3 and 4 B. Porter, The Lion’s Share (many edns) P. Levine, The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset (2007) P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism, 1689-1914: Innovation and Expansion (1993) A. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion, pp. 84, 95-148 E. A. Benians (ed), The Cambridge History of the British Empire, vol. III, 1870-1919, (1959) (old, at times showing its imperialist origins, but a useful source nonetheless), esp ch. By A. F. Madden.

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Primary

J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (1903) R. Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908) – recently republished by (Mineola,

N.Y., 2007).

Consolidated List of Primary Sources Note: Much of this will be mounted on MyAberdeen or links placed there,

along with further relevant sources. Many but not all are also available in hard

copy in the Library. In all the documents, and especially the books, selected

chapters or pages will be provided here. Gobbets will come from these areas.

The sources are rich: although some will obviously relate to particular weeks,

many will cover a number of areas. For that reason they have been broken

down by type rather than topic. Ranging widely through these sources is the

key to success!

Gobbets in the exam will come from the selections listed under the weekly seminar topics. Selected Adverts from the John Johnson Collection N. Angell, The Great Illusion (1910), L. Amery, Imperial Unity (1912) Lord Avebury, Sir John Lubbock, Free Trade(1904) R. Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Scouting for Boys: The Original 1908 Edition.

Robert Baden-Powell (Mineola, N.Y., 2007) C. W. Boyd (ed), The Speeches of Joseph Chamberlain, vol II, (1914) Lord Curzon, Speeches on India (1904) Lord Cromer, ‘The Government of Subject Races’, Edinburgh Review, (1908) Emigration Agents’ Correspondence, Archives Canada. A Girl’s Empire (PDF)- vol 1 (1902), E. E. Green, A Gordon Highlander, (1901) J.G. Henty, With Roberts to Pretoria (1901), J. A. Hobson, The Psychology of Jingoism, (London, 1901) J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (London, 1905) H. H. Johnstone, ‘Composition of the Empire’, and ‘The Future of the Empire’,

chapters from A. Mee (ed), The Harmsworth History of the World (London, 1907-909).

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S. C. Lomas, Festival of Empire: Souvenir of the Pagent of London (1911), Part IV, and Finale

Franco-British Exhibition, Official Guide, Sir Charles Lucas, ‘Colour Class and Race’, from idem, Greater Rome and

Greater Britain, (1912) R. A Macdonald, Labour and the Empire (London, 1907) A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, Britain Through Negro Eyes (1909), Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and

Addresses (London, 1913), E. D. Morrell, Red Rubber (1907), Sydney Oliver, White Capital and Coloured Labour, (Independent Labour Party,

1906), G. Paish, 'Great Britain's Capital Investments in Other Lands', Journal of the

Royal Statistical Society, 72 (1909), pp. 465-495. [JSTOR] Pan African Congress Declaration, London 1900 R. Roberts, The Classic Slum G. B. Shaw, Fabianism and Empire (London, 1900), Part I. Lord Strathcona, 'Imperialism and the unity of the empire [microform] : a

rectorial address before the students of the University of Aberdeen', (1900)

Times Empire Day Supplement, 24 May 1909 S. Webb, Twentieth Century Politics : A Policy of National Efficiency (1901). A. White, Efficiency and Empire (1901) Preface Intro and Conclusion A. White, ‘Alien Migrant’, (1905) Israel Zangwill, ‘Old Fogeys and Old Bogeys’, (1909)

Statistics L. Davis and R. A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire (1986),

Tables in Chapter 2. W. Schotte, British Overseas Trade (1952), Tables 18-22 W. A Carrothers, Emigration from the British Isles, (London, 1929), Statistical Appendices

On-Line Sources and Resources

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/history/ugrad/online-resources.shtml%20

(this is the QML site listing all on-line databases of use for historical research)

http://uk.jstor.org (this is a ‘full-text’ site. As well as secondary sources it has a good deal of primary material)

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In addition to the QML catalogue, you can also search the manuscript and

historic collections. Go to: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml And click on: online

catalogue to the archives and manuscripts. The search function uses an * for searching so crusad* will return hits for crusade, crusades, crusaders, crusading, etc.

See also the following for more primary and secondary sources: www.empiremuseum.co.uk (useful archival material and images) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html (brief extracts from sources, a bit basic for Level Four)

http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/contents/ (an excellent selection ranging across and beyond the period)

www.archive.org (A vast range of digitized books) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/sittings/1900s (Parliamentary debates

online - a critical source). http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ (A useful source, especially good on

election results, census data and the like) http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/index.html?url=%2Findex.jsp (Critical source for biographical information, especially on the authors of many of the primary sources) http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/subject/impe.html (reviews of much

relevant recent literature)

Select Bibliography: Secondary Sources by Topic

Note: For each seminar you will be expected to read the primary and core

secondary sources. The readings will be divided up prior to the seminar, and

you will have responsibility for particular texts, but you certainly should not

limit yourself to those. An extensive knowledge of Primary and Secondary

Sources is indispensable. Each topic will be introduced by a presentation by a

member of the class. The remainder of the session will comprise discussions

arising from the presentation. As far as copyright permits, core and primary

readings will be placed on MyAberdeen. However in many instances it will not

be possible to rely solely on online materials and it is essential that you

consult such less accessible materials as well! Core items and primary sources

Not on MyAberdeen are underlined.

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S2:

Introductory Readings

D. Read, Edwardian England, Ch 2.

Or P. Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990, (1996), ch 1 and 2

Either, J. Darwin, The Empire Project, Ch 7

Or R. Hyam, ‘The Edwardian Empire’, in J. Brown and W. R. Louis, eds, Oxford

History of the British Empire: Vol 4: The Twentieth Century (1999) Or

J. Eddy and D. Schreuder, ‘Context’ in Eddy, J. and D. Schreuder, eds., The Rise of Colonial Nationalism: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their Nationalities, 1880-1914 (Sydney, 1988).

Primary:

H. H. Johnstone, ‘Composition of the Empire’, and ‘The Future of the Empire’,

chapters from A. Mee (ed), The Harmsworth History of the World (London, 1907-909).

S3: Imperial Impacts: Interpretations and Approaches.

Core

Start with, S. J. Potter, ‘Empire, Cultures and Identities in Nineteenth- and

Twentieth-Century Britain’, History Compass, 5 (2007)

Then, J. Mackenzie, chapter On Popular Imperialism in A. Porter (ed), Oxford History

of the British Empire, vol. 3. A. S. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain

from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Harlow, 2005), Introduction. C. Hall and S. Rose, ‘Introduction’ in S. Rose and C. Hall (Eds), At Home with Empire (2006) B. Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists (2005) Ch. 1

Or

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B. Porter, ‘Further Thoughts on Imperial Absent-Mindedness’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36:1 (2008)

Further

C. Hall (ed), Cultures of Empire (2000), introduction. C. Hall and S. O. Rose, At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the

Imperial World (Cambridge, 2006). J. M. MacKenzie, Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public

Opinion, 1880-1960 (Manchester, 1984) J. M. MacKenzie (ed), Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester, 1986)

(ed) P. J. Marshall, ‘Imperial Britain’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 23 (1995) B. Porter, The Absent Minded Imperialists (2005) R. Price, ‘One Big Thing: Britain, Its Empire and Their Imperial Culture’, Journal

of British Studies, 45 (2006), pp. 621-646. S. Stockwell, British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (Oxford, 2009), essays by Hall and Howe

P. Readman, ‘The Place of the Past in English Culture, c.1860-1914’, Past & Present, 186 (2005)

A. S. Thompson, Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c.1880-1932 (London, 2000), ch 1

S4 Individual Preparation of a selected source

S5: The Economy and the Empire: Patterns, Costs, and Benefits

(Course Co-ordinator to present and lead)

Core

Cain, P. J. and A. G. Hopkins (1987). "Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas II: New Imperialism, 1850-1945." Economic History Review 40(1): 1-26.

L. E. Davis and R. A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Cambridge, 1987), esp. Conclusion.

P. K. O’Brien, ‘The Costs and Benefits of British Imperialism, 1846-1914’, Past and Present (1988), pp. 163-200

A. Offer, ‘The British Empire, 1870-1914: A Waste of Money?’, Economic History Review, 46 (1993), pp. 215-238

Primary

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G. Paish, 'Great Britain's Capital Investments in Other Lands', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 72 (1909), pp. 465-495. J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, (1902), Pt 1, Ch 4. L. Davis and R. A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire (1986),

Tables in Chapter 2. W. Schotte, British Overseas Trade (1952), Tables 18-22

Further P. Cain, ‘Economics: The Metropolitan Context’ in Oxford History of the British

Empire (Oxford, 1999) P. J. Cain and A. G. Hoplins, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion,

(1993), ch. 3-7 F. Crouzet, ‘Trade and Empire’ in B. M. Radcliffe (ed), Great Britain and Her

World, (1975) L. E. Davis and R. A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The

Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Cambridge, 1987) A. Dilley, ‘The Economics of Empire’ in S. E. Stockwell, The British Empire:

Themes and Perspectives, (2008), pp. 116-119. [For a brief, if pedestrian, overview of the debate]

M. Edelstein, ‘Imperialism: Costs and Benefits’, in R. Floud and D. N. McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain since 1700 (Cambridge, 1994)

C. Feinstein, ‘Britain’s Overseas Investments in 1913’, Economic History Review, 43 (1990), pp. 288-295

D. Jessop, ‘The Colonial Stock Act of 1900: A Symptom of New Imperialism?’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 4 (1975), pp. 154-163

P. Kennedy, ‘The Costs and Benefits of British Imperialism, 1846-1914’, Past and Present (1989), pp. 186-192

J. Maltby and J. Rutterford, ‘“She Possessed Her Own Fortune”: Women Investors from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century’, Business History, 48 (2006), pp. 220 - 253

P. K. O’Brien, ‘The Costs and Benefits of British Imperialism, 1846-1914’, Past and Present (1988), pp. 163-200

A. Offer, ‘The British Empire, 1870-1914: A Waste of Money?’, Economic History Review, 46 (1993), pp. 215-238

A. Offer, ‘Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914’, in A. N. Porter ed., Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol 3 :The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999), pp. 546-573.

C. Schmitz, ‘The Nature and Dimensions of Scottish Foreign Investment, 1860-1914’, Business History, 39 (1997), pp. 42 - 68

I. Stone, Global Export of British Capital (1999) A. Thompson and G. Magee, ‘A Soft Touch? British Industry, Empire Markets,

and the Self-Governing Dominions, c.1870-1914’, Economic History

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Review, 56 (2003), pp. 689-717 A. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back, Ch. 7. A. Thompson and G. Magee, Empire and Globalization, (2010)

S6: Popular Imperialism? Empire in Everyday Life

Core

(Continue with the above, and see also)

J. English, ‘Empire Day in Britain, 1904-1958’, Historical Journal 49:1 (2006)

P. Summerfield, ‘Patriotism and Empire: Music-Hall Entertainment, 1870-1914’ in J. M. Mackenzie (ed), Popular Imperialism (1986)

B. Porter, Absent-Minded Imperialists, ch. 8 A. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the

Colonial Contest (New York and London, 1995), selected chapter

Primary

S. C. Lomas, Festival of Empire: Souvenir of the Pageant of London (1911), Part IV, and Finale

Selected Adverts from the John Johnson Collection J. A. Hobson, The Psychology of Jingoism, (London, 1901) Introductory – Jingoism: Its Meaning and Origins Pt II- Ch I- The Abuse of the Press J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, Part II, Ch III ‘Moral and sentimental

Factors’ A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, Britain Through Negro Eyes (1909), CH 33-4 R. Roberts, The Classic Slum, selected section.

Further (see also S4) P. Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914

(Ithaca and London, 1988) P. Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great

Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 (Manchester, 1988) C. Kaul, Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, c. 1880-1922 (New York,

2003) J. M. Mackenzie (ed), Popular Imperialism (1986), essays by Springhall,

Bratton, Mangan and Mackenzie. A. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial

Contest (New York and London, 1995), S. J. Potter, News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press

System, 1876-1922 (Oxford, 2003)

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S. J. Potter, Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: Reporting the British Empire, c.1857-1921 (Dublin, 2004)

B. Porter, Absent-Minded Imperialists, chs 8, 9, 10 A. Ramamurthy, Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British

Advertising (Manchester, 2003) J. R. Ryan, Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualisation of the British

Empire (London, 1997) G. R. Searle, A new England?, Ch. 14-15 A. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back¸ chs 1-4. A. Thompson, Imperial Britain, ch. 3.

S7: The South African War: The Home Front

Core A. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion, pp. 116-118 P. Warwick, The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War (1980), Essay by

Blanche K. Morgan, ‘The Boer War and the Media’, Twentieth-Century British History,

13 (2002) A. Porter, ‘The South African War and Imperial Britain: A Question of

Significance’ in G. Cuthbertson, A. M. Grundlingh and M.-L. Suttie, Writing a Wider War: Rethinking the South African War, 1899-1902 (Athens, 2002) (Available online)

A. Thompson, ‘Imperial Propaganda During the South African War’ in G. Cuthbertson, A. M. Grundlingh and M.-L. Suttie, Writing a Wider War: Rethinking the South African War, 1899-1902 (Athens, 2002) (Available online)

Primary

B. Shaw, Fabianism and Empire, 1-7, 22-38 J.G. Henty, With Roberts to Pretoria (1901), CH 19- Mafeking J. A. Hobson, ‘Capitalism and Imperialism in South Africa’, Contemporary

Review, 77, (1900)

‘South African War—mortality in camps of detention’, House of Commons

Debates (Hansard), vol 95 cc573-629 (17 June 1901) esp speeches by

Lloyd George and Henry Campbell-Bannerman,

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1901/jun/17/south-

african-war-mortality-in-camps-of#S4V0095P0_19010617_HOC_276

Further

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Causes and Context

S. Marks & S. Trapido, 'Lord Milner and the South African State' in History Workshop Journal, 8 (1979)

P. T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (London, 1994), 15-17

A.N. Porter, 'The South African War (1899-1902): Context and motive reconsidered', Journal of African History xxxi (1990), 43-57

A.N. Porter, ‘The South African War and the Historians’, African Affairs 99 (2000)

P. Richardson and J. J. Van-Helten, ‘The Development of the South African Gold Mining Industry, 1886 - 1914’, Economic History Review, 37 (1984)

R Robinson, J. Gallagher and A. Denny, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism (London, 1961).ch. XIV

I. R. Smith, The Origins of the South African War, 1899-1902 (London, 1996) P. Warwick and S. B. Spies eds., The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War

1899-1902 (Harlow, 1980). [Many relevant chapters] G. Wheatcroft, The Randlords (London, 1993), ch 14-15

Course and Consequences: G. Cuthbertson, A. M. Grundlingh and M.-L. Suttie, Writing a Wider War:

Rethinking the South African War, 1899-1902 (Athens, 2002), chs. 8, 12-15 [Available Online]

D. Lowry, The South African War Reappraised (Manchester, 2000) D. E. Omissi and A. S. Thompson, The Impact of the South African War (Basingstoke, 2002) R. Price, An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class

Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902 (London, 1972) J. Schneer, London, 1900: An Imperial Metropolis. final chapter on the Khaki Election. G.R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886-1914 (2004), ch 9 P. Readman, ‘The Conservative Party and Patriotism: The Case of the General

Election of 1900’, Journal of British Studies (2001) P. Warwick and S. B. Spies eds., The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War

1899-1902 (Harlow, 1980). S8: Fears of Decline and Difference? Ideas of Empire and Race in Edwardian

Britain

Core A. Thompson, 'The language of imperialism and the meanings of empire:

imperial discourse and British Politics, 1895-1914', Journal of British Studies, 36 (1997)

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I. C. Fletcher, ‘Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era’ in A. Burton, After the Imperial Turn (2003)

D. Read, Edwardian England, (1972), ch. 5 J. D. Startt, Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in the Edwardian

Stately Press, 1903-1913, (1991), Intro and Ch. 1

Primary L. Amery, Imperial Unity (1912),

Ch 1- Imperial Unity Lord Cromer, ‘The Government of Subject Races’, Edinburgh Review, (1908) Lord Curzon, Speeches on India (1904),

Ch 1 and 2- Speeches and Mansion House and Guildhall, July 20 1904. R. Jebb, Studies in Colonial Nationalism, ch XII, XIII Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and

Addresses (London, 1913), Royal Colonial Institute, London, June 16 1908, The Two Empires, pp. 289-300

Sir Charles Lucas, ‘Colour Class and Race’, from idem, Greater Rome and Greater Britain, (1912)

Further P. J. Cain, ‘Empire and the Languages of Character and Virtue in Later Victorian

and Edwardian Britain ‘, Modern Intellectual History, 4 (2007), pp. 249-273

J. Eddy and D. Schreuder eds., The Rise of Colonial Nationalism: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their Nationalities, 1880-1914 (Sydney, 1988). Chapter by Schreuder on Jebb

Gorman, D., Imperial Citizenship : Empire and the Question of Belonging (Manchester, 2006).

H.C.G. Matthew, The Liberal Imperialists (1973) W. Nimocks, Milner’s Young Men: The “Kindergarten” In Edwardian Imperial

Affairs (1968) S. Potter, ‘Richard Jebb, John S. Ewart, and the Round Table, 1898-1926’,

English Historical Review, February 2007) J. D. Startt, Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in the Edwardian

Stately Press, 1903-1913, (1991). A. Thompson, Imperial Britain, chs. 1-2

S9: Anti-Imperialists, The Left, and The Empire

Core B. Porter, Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa,

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1895-1914 (London, 1968), ch. 7 P. J. Cain, Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance

1887-1938 (Oxford, 2002), ch 4 B. Semmell, Imperialism and Social Reform (1968), ch. III and VI

Primary J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, Pt 1, Chs 4, 6, Pt 2, Chs 4-5 L. T. Hobhouse, Democracy and Reaction (1904), ch II, VI, VIII R. A Macdonald, Labour and the Empire (London, 1907)

III- The Imperial Standard. IV- The Imperial Authority.

G. B. Shaw, Fabianism and Empire (London, 1900), pp. 1-22, 44-55

Further A. M. Cuthbertson, Grundlingh and M.-L. Suttie, Writing a Wider War:

Rethinking the South African War, 1899-1902 (Athens, 2002) – Chs on Hobson, and On Religious Critics of the War.

E.F. Biagini & A. Reid (eds), Currents of radicalism: popular radicalism, party politics and organised Labour in Britain, 1850-1914 (1991)

P. J. Cain, Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887-1938 (Oxford, 2002)

N. Etherington, Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital (London, 1984)

R. Koebner & H.D.Schmidt, Imperialism: the Story and Significance of a Political Word (1964) B. Porter, Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in

Africa, 1895-1914 (London, 1968) M. Taylor, 'Imperium et Libertas? Rethinking the Radical critique of

Imperialism during the nineteenth century', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 19, 1, (1991)

D. Nash, ‘Taming the God of Battles: Secular and Moral Critiques of the South African War’ in Cuthbertson

S10: Attitudes to Others: Humanitarianism, Migration, and ‘Chinese Slavery’

Core

S. J. Brown, Providence and Empire, (2008), ch 6. K. Grant, ‘Christian Critics of Empire: Missionaries, Lantern Lectures and the

Congo Reform Campaigns in Britain’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 29 (2001), 27-58

K.Grant, A Civilised Savagery (2005), Ch. 3

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J. Hyslop, ‘The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa Before the First World War’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 12.4 (December 1999

A. N. Porter, Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914,(Manchester, 2004), selected chapter.

Primary

H. R. Fox Bourne, Slavery and Its Substitutes (1900) Idem, Blacks and Whites in Southern Africa (1900) J. A. Hobson, The Psychology of Jingoism, (London, 1901)

Ch III- Christianity in Khaki Ch II- Platform and Pulpit: A Record of License and Suppression

E. D. Morrell, Red Rubber (1907), Prefaces, Section IV – ‘The Beneficiaries’ Section V, Ch IV- What Britain Can Do

Sydney Oliver, White Capital and Coloured Labour, (Independent Labour Party, 1906),

Ch I- Introductory CH XI- Indentured Immigrant Labour Ch XII- The Industrial Factor in Race Prejudice Ch XVI- Short and Long Views on White and Black.

A. White, ‘Alien Migrant’, (1905)

Further K. Grant, A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-

1926 (New York ; London, 2005) B. Gainer, The Alien Invasion: the Origins of the Aliens Act of 1905 (London,

1972). J. A. Garrard, The English and Immigration, 1880-1910 (London, 1971) A. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion, section on Missionaries B. Porter, Critics of Empire, Ch. 8.

S11: Tariff Reform and Free Trade

Core P. J. Cain in A. O’Day, The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability, 1900-1914

(London, 1979) A. S. Thompson, ‘Tariff Reform: An Imperial Strategy, 1903-1913’, Historical

Journal, 40 (1997), pp. 1033-1054 or A. Thompson, Imperial Britain, ch. 4

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A. Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (Oxford, 1997), ch. 7 E. H. H. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics, and

Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 (London, 1995), ch 7 [but see also the remainder of part III for context]

Primary

C. W. Boyd (ed), The Speeches of Joseph Chamberlain, vol II, (1914) ‘A Demand for Inquiry’, Birmingham, May 15 1903 p. 125 ‘The Case for Tariff Reform’ St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, October 6 1903,

p. 140 ‘The Attitude of the Colonies’. Tynemouth, Octorber 21, 1903, p. 191-

199 ‘The Last Speech’: Bingley Hall, July 1906, pp. 361-373 Lord Avebury, Sir John Lubbock, Free Trade(1904) Ch 4- Preferential Trade Ch VI – The Case of India Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and

Addresses (London, 1913), Tunbridge Wells, 24 October 1907, Tariff Reform, pp. 195-209,

Further

N. Blewett, ‘Free fooders, Balfourites, whole hoggers: factionalism within the

Unionist party, 1906-10’, Historical Journal (1968) K. D. Brown, ‘The Trade Union Tariff Reform Association, 1904-1913’, The

Journal of British Studies, 9 (1970), pp. 141-153 P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion

(1993), Chapter 7 P. J. Cain, Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance

1887-1938 (Oxford, 2002), Chapter 6 E. H. H. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics, and

Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914 (London, 1995) esp part III [The seminal work – read more than the scanned sections!]

P. T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (London, 1994), ch. 18-19

A. Offer, ‘Empire and Social Reform: British Overseas Investment and Domestic Politics, 1908-1914’, Historical Journal, 26 (1983), pp. 119-138

J. D. Startt, Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in the Edwardian Stately Press (London, 1991), ch. 3

A. Sykes, Tariff Reform in British Politics (1979) S. H. Zebel, ‘Joseph Chamberlain and the Genesis of Tariff Reform’, The Journal

of British Studies, 7 (1967), pp. 131-157

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S12: Politics and Empire, 1901-1910

Core On 1906 Election, see Lawrence Goldman’s brief essay for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95348.html N. Blewett, The Peers, the Parties and the People: The General Elections of

1910 (London, 1972), selected chapter. C. G. Brown and W. Hamish Fraser, Britain Since 1707, Ch. 24 M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics (1982), selected chapter. A. K. Russell, Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906 (Newton Abbot,

1973), chapters 3 and 7. G.R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886-1914 (2004), ch 10 A. Thompson, Imperial Britain, ch 2

Primary J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (1902), Pt 2, Ch 1 S. Webb, Twentieth Century Politics : A Policy of National Efficiency (1901). Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and Addresses (London, 1913),

Cardiff, December 23 1909, Two Conflicting Policies, pp. 438-452,

Electoral Results 1901, 1906, 1910 (Jan and Dec)– Vision of Britain

Further S. Berger, The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats, 1900-31

(1994) N. Blewett, The Peers, the Parties and the People: The General Elections

of 1910 (London, 1972) P.F. Clarke, Lancashire and the New Liberalism (1971) F. Coetzee, For Party or for Country: Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Popular

Conservatism (1990), chs 3-4 E. H. H. Green, Crisis of Conservatism (1995), ch. 11 B. B. Gilbert, David Lloyd George: The Architect of Change, 1863-1912 (1987) C. Macdonald (ed), Unionist Scotland, 1800-1997 (Edinburgh, 1998) esp ch 5 D. Marquand, Ramsay Macdonald (1977) B. K. Murray, The People’s Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics

(Oxford, 1979) A. O’Day, The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability, 1900-1914

(London, 1979)

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M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics (1982) M. Pugh, The Tories and the People 1880-1935 (Oxford, 1985)

D. Read, Edwardian England, (1972), ch 3, 6 A. K. Russell, Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906 (Newton Abbot,

1973) G.R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886-1914 (2004), ch 4, 10-12 James D. Startt, Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in the Edwardian

Stately Press (London, 1991), ch. 3 G.R. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 (2001

edn) D. Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party (1990)

P. Readman, ‘The Liberal Party and Patriotism in early Twentieth-Century Britain’, Twentieth-Century British History (2001)

A. Thompson, Imperial Britain A. Thompson, Empire Strikes Back, Ch 6 C. C. Wriggley (Ed), Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (2003), Part

1 S13: National Efficiency and Social Reform, 1903-1910

Core G. R. Searle, ‘The Politics of National Efficiency’, in C. C. Wriggley (Ed),

Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (2003) [And continue the readings for S12]

Primary L. T. Hobhouse, Democracy and Reaction (1904), Ch IX Idem, Liberalism, (1911), Selected Chapters. Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and

Addresses (London, 1913), Manchester, December 14 1906, The Imperialist Creed, pp. 135-152, Guildford, October 29 1907, A Constructive Policy

G. B. Shaw, Fabianism and Empire (London, 1900), Part I. S. Webb, Twentieth Century Politics : A Policy of National Efficiency (1901). A. White, Efficiency and Empire (1901) Preface Intro and Conclusion

Further

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[Note many of the readings for S12 and S11 will be relevant, especially for the political context of the period] S. Constantine. ‘British Emigration and Social Reform, 1880-1950’, in C. G.

Pooley and I. Whyte eds., Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: A Social History of Migration (London, 1991)

E. H. H. Green, Crisis of Conservatism, chapter on Social Reform. J. Harris, ‘Political thought and the welfare state, 1870-1940: an intellectual

framework for British social policy’, Past & Present (1992) J.R. Hay, The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, 1906-14 (1983), ch. 3 E.P. Hennock, British Social Reform and German Precedents (1997) A. Offer, ‘Empire and Social Reform: British Overseas Investment and

Domestic Politics, 1908-1914’, Historical Journal, 26 (1983), pp. 119-138E. Rogers, ‘'The Impact of the New World on Economic and Social Debates in Britain, C.1860-1914', Ph.D. Thesis, on MyAberdeen.

G. R. Searle, The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899-1914 (Oxford, 1971), esp first Chapter on SA War.

G. R. Searle, in A. Thomspon and D. Omissi, The Impact of the South African War (2002)

B. Semmel, Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought 1895-1914 (London, 1960)

P. Thane, ‘The working class and state welfare in Britain, 1880-1914’, Historical Journal (1984)

S14: Childhood and Empire: Youth Movements, Schools, and Juvenile

Literature.

Core P. Dunae, ‘Boy’s Literature and the Idea of Empire, 1870-1914’, Victorian Studies, 24 (1980) M. Rosenthal, The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy

Scout Movement (New York, 1986), selected chapter

J. Springhall, ‘Baden-Powell and the Scout Movement before 1920: Citizen

Training or Soldiers of the Future?’, The English Historical Review, 102

(1987), pp. 934-942 A. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back, Ch. 5

Primary R. Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Scouting for Boys : The Original 1908 Edition.

Robert Baden-Powell (Mineola, N.Y., 2007) [Scanned ‘Camp Yarn’ on Empire]

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E. E. Green, A Gordon Highlander, (1901) CH VII- On Scouting Duty CH IX- The Ups and Downs of War CH X- Grim Battles

A Girls’s Empire – 1902 Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and Addresses (London, 1913),

Guildhall, April 23, Empire Education, pp. 171-173,

Further K. Castle, Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism through Children’s Books

and Magazines (Manchester, 1996) S. Humphries, ‘“Hurrah for England”: Schooling and the Working Class in

Bristol, 1870-1914’, Southern History (1979) P. Horn, English Elementary Education and the Growth of the Imperial Ideal

(Manchester, 1988) M. Langfield, ‘Voluntarism, Salvation, and Rescue: British Juvenile Migration to

Australia and Canada, 1890-1914’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 32 (2004)

J. A. Mangan ed., The Imperial Curriculum: Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience, (London, 1993)

S. Pryke, ‘The Popularity of Nationalism in the Early Boy Scout Movement’, Social History, 23 (1998) B. Porter, Absent-Minded Imperialists, relevant chapters [lots of material but

you’ll have to dig a bit] T. M. Proctor, ‘(Uni)Forming Youth: Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in Britain,

1908-39’, History Workshop Journal, 45 (1998) A. Warren, ‘Citizens of the Empire’ in J. M. Mackenzie (ed), Imperialism and

Popular Culture (1986) A. Warren, ‘Mothers for the Empire’? The Girl Guides Association in Britain,

1909-1939 (Manchester, 1990)

S15: Migration: Leaving Britain

Core G. Magee and A. Thompson, Empire and Globalization, Ch. 3 M. Harper, ‘Migration’ in P. Buckner (ed), Canada and the British Empire,

(2008) A. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion, p. 84

Primary

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W. A Carrothers, Emigration from the British Isles, (London, 1929), Statistical Appendices Emigration Agents Correspondence [courtesy of Marjory Harper)

Further B. L. Blakeley, ‘Women and Imperialism: The Colonial Office and Female

Emigration to South Africa, 1901-1910’, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 13 (1981), pp. 131-149

S. Constantine. ‘British Emigration and Social Reform, 1880-1950’, in C. G. Pooley and I. Whyte eds., Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: A Social History of Migration (London, 1991)

S. Constantine in J. M Brown and W. R. Lewis, Oxford History of the British Empire(1999), vol iv. N. H. Carrier and J. R. Jeffery, External Migration a Study of the Available

Statistics (London, 1953). T. M. E. Devine, Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society, (1992), chs 1, 2, 5 D. Glynn, ‘ “Exporting Outcast London”: Assisted Emigration to Canada, 1886-

1914’, Histoire Sociale - Social History, 15 (1982) A. J. Hammerton, Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female

Emigration, 1830-1914 (London, 1979) M. Langfield, ‘Voluntarism, Salvation, and Rescue: British Juvenile Migration to

Australia and Canada, 1890-1914’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 32 (2004)

G. Magee and A. Thompson, ‘Lines of Credit, Debts of Obligation: Migrant Remittances to Britain, c.1875-1913’, Economic History Review, 39 (2006), pp. 539-577

Harper, M. and S. Constantine, Migration and Empire (Oxford, 2010). A. Murdoch, British Emigration, 1603-1914 (Basingstoke, 2004). P. Payton, The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall’s ‘Great Emigration’

(Fowey, 2005) E. Richards, Britannia’s Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales

and Ireland since 1600 (London and New York, 2004)

S16: Gender, Sexuality and and Empire.

Core A. M. Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial

Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill and London, 1994), selected chapter. G.R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886-1914 (2004), pp. 55-82, 456-

470 L. E. N. Mayhall, ‘The South African War and the Origins of Suffrage Militancy

in Britain’ in I. C. Fletcher, P. Levine and L. E. N. Mayhall, Women’s

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Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race (London, 2000)

E. Riedi, ‘Women, Gender, and the Promotion of Empire’, Historical Journal, 45 (2002)

A. Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back, Ch. 5

Primary A Girl’s Empire (PDF)- vol 1 (1902),

Index, 85-88, 89-90, 441-442 CH XVIII- A Birthday Feast

Exhibition Guide: Women of All Nations Exhibition L. Amery, Imperial Unity (1912), Ch X- Mountaineering as a Sport for Soldiers E. E. Green, A Gordon Highlander, (1901)

CH I- War CH V- Queenie

A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, Britain Through Negro Eyes (1909), CH 42, 48-9 Israel Zangwill, ‘Old Fogeys and Old Bogeys’, (1909) [Fuller details to follow]

Further B. L. Blakeley, ‘Women and Imperialism: The Colonial Office and Female

Emigration to South Africa, 1901-1910’, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 13 (1981), pp. 131-149

A. M. Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill and London, 1994)

J. Bush, Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power (London, 2000) C. Collette, ‘Women and Politics: 1900-1939’ in C. C. Wrigley (ed), Companion

to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (2003) G. Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of

Masculinities (London, 1994) I. C. Fletcher, P. Levine and L. E. N. Mayhall, Women’s Suffrage in the British

Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race (London, 2000) A. J. Hammerton, Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female

Emigration, 1830-1914 (London, 1979) P. Levine, Gender and Empire (Oxford, 2004) J. Lewis, The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in England,

1900-1939 (1980) L. Leneman, A Guid Cause: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland

(Aberdeen, 1991) C. Midgley, Gender and Imperialism (1999)

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C. Midgley and P. Levine Essays on Women Activists and Sexuality in C. Hall and S. Rose (eds), At Home with Empire

S. Oldfield (ed), This Working Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture in Britain, 1884-1945 (1994)

D. Read, Edwardian England, (1972), ch 8 E. Riedi, ‘Options for an Imperialist Woman: The Case of Violet Markham,

1899-1914’, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 32 (2000)

K. Pickles, Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (Manchester, 2002)

S. Marks on Nursing in G. Cuthbertson, A. M. Grundlingh and M.-L. Suttie, Writing a Wider War: Rethinking the South African War, 1899-1902 (Athens, 2002)

J. Schneer, London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis (New Haven, 1999), ch. 6 http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95579.html

S17: London: Imperial Metropolis?

Core D. Feldman, ‘Jews and the British Empire c.1900’, History Workshop Journal,

63 (2007), pp. 70-89 D. Kynaston, The City of London: Vol. ii Golden Years, 1890-1914 (London,

1994), ch 12 J. Schneer, London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis (New Haven, 1999), ch. 5

Primary Pan African Congress Declaration, London 1900 [See also Schneer, ch. 9] A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, Britain Through Negro Eyes (1909), chs 4-5

Further A. R. Dilley, Finance, Politics, and Imperialism, (2012), Chs 2-4. D. Glynn, ‘ “Exporting Outcast London”: Assisted Emigration to Canada, 1886-

1914’, Histoire Sociale - Social History, 15 (1982) Harris, Jose: Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914 (1994) – the chapter

on London C. A. Jones, International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall

of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie (New York, 1987). Final Chapter and Conclusion.

D. Kynaston, The City of London: Vol. ii Golden Years, 1890-1914 (London, 1994), esp. ch 12, 19, 24

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G. P. Marchildon, ‘“Hands across the Water”: Canadian Industrial Financiers in the City of London, 1905-20’, Business History, 34 (1992), pp. 69-95

J. Schneer, London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis (New Haven, 1999) B. Schwarz, West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (Manchester, 2003) J. Seed, ‘Limehouse Blues: Looking for Chinatown in the London Docks, 1900–

40’, History Workshop Journal, 62 (2006), 64 A. M. Wainwright, ‘The Better Class’ of Indians: Social Rank, Imperial Identity,

and South Asians in Britain, 1858-1914 (Manchester, 2008) A. Woollacott, ‘The Colonial Flaneuse: Australian Women Negotiating Turn-of-

the-Century London’, Signs, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Spring, 2000), pp. 761-787 S18: Scotland and Empire

Core J. Mackenzie, ‘Empire and National Identities: The Case of Scotland’,

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1998) MacKenzie, J. M. 'Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English Worlds? The

Historiography of a Four-Nations Approach to the British Empire' in Hall, C. and K. McClelland eds., Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present, (Manchester, 2010), pp. ix, 246 p.

MacKenzie, J. M. and T. M. Devine, eds., Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford 2011). Chapter by Richard Finlay.

Primary Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and Addresses (London, 1913),

Edinburgh, 15 Nov 1907, Unionists and the Empire, pp. 234-243, Lord Strathcona, 'Imperialism and the unity of the empire [microform] : a

rectorial address before the students of the University of Aberdeen', (1900)

Further

T. M. Devine, Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society, (1992), Chs. 1, 2, 5 T.M. Devine, ‘The Spoils of Empire’, and ‘Imperial Scotland’, in T.M. Devine

(ed.), Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007 (Edinburgh, 2008) I. Donnachie et al, Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888-1988 M. Fry, The Scottish Empire (Edinburgh, 2003) C.W. Hill Edwardian Scotland, (1976) I. G. C. Hutchinson, Scottish Politics in the Twentieth Century (2001) or his

Political History of Scotland (1986)

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J. M. MacKenzie, ‘Essay and Reflection: On Scotland and the Empire’, International History Review (1993)

J. Mackenzie ‘Glasgow’ in F. Driver and D. Gilbert, Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Manchester, 1999)

G. Stewart, Jute and Empire (Manchester, 1998) J. J. Smyth, Labour Politics in Glasgow, 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage and

Sectarianism (2001) Ireland and the Empire D. Ayerst, Garvin of the Observer (London, 1985) D. G. Boyce, The Irish Question and British Politics, 1867-1996 (1996) Clare Carroll and Patricia King (eds.), Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (2003) P. Buckland, Ulster Unionism (2 Vols, 1976) R.F. Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1989) R. Foster, Paddy and Mr Punch (Select sections) Stephen Howe, Ireland and Empire (2000) A. Jackson, The Ulster Party: Irish Unionists in the House of Commons (1989) P. Jalland, The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to

1914 (1970) Keith Jeffery (ed.), An Irish Empire? (1996) Kevin Kenny (ed.), Ireland and the British Empire (2004) H. Morgan, ‘An Unwelcome Heritage: Ireland’s Role in British Empire-Building’,

History of European Ideas, 19 (1994). D. MacCracken, The Irish Pro-Boers. 1877-1902 (Johannesburg, 1989) D. McCracken, Macbride’s Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War

(Dublin, 1999) D. McMahon, ‘Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth’, in OHBE, vol 4, The

Twentieth Century (1999) S. J. Potter, Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: Reporting the

British Empire, c.1857-1921 (Dublin, 2004) D. Read, Edwardian England, (1972), ch 9 S20: Defence, the Military and Empire Core P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976), ch. 8. D. Reynolds, Britannia Overruled, (1991), ch. 3. A. Thompson, Imperial Britain, (1996), ch. 5. Primary

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N. Angell, The Great Illusion (1910), Pt 1, Ch II-IV Admiral Hurd, The Command of the Sea, Introduction Admiral Hurd and Henry Castle, German Naval Power, (1914), Introduction Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and

Addresses (London, 1913), Nottingham, April 19, 1909, National Peril and National Service, pp. 365-374

Further A. L. Friedberg, The Weary Titan. Britain and the Experience of Relative

Decline, 1895-1914 (1988) D.C. Gordon, The Dominion Partnership in Imperial Defence, 1870-1914 (1965) J. W. M. Hichberger, Images of the Army: The Military in British Art, 1815-1914

(Manchester, 1988) P. M. Kennedy, The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (London,

1980) A. J. Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the

Fisher Era, 1904-1919: Vols 4 and 5 ([S.l.], 1969) A. Offer, The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford, 1989) G. R. Searle, A New England? Ch 13 J. T. Sumida, In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology. And British

Naval Policy, 1889-1914, (London, 1989) R. Williams, Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence

Policy, 1899-1915 (New Haven, Conn., 1991)

ASSESSMENT

100% Examination – details below

Please find the discipline specific Common Assessment Scale (CAS) descriptors

in MyAberdeen.

ESSAYS AND FORMATIVE WRITTEN WORK

You are required to submit one unassessed essay (3000-3,500 words) and, to help in the preparation of the essay, a draft bibliography and outline. You will also be required to write a number of practice gobbets, and to undertake a mock exam. The primary purpose of this work is to help in the development of analytical skills necessary for the successful completion of the exam. All written work will be returned and discussed in person by the course co-ordinator.

Bibliography. You are encouraged to submit a draft bibliography to the Course Co-ordinator in class on Thursday of Week 5 (31 October) not later than 3 p.m.

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Essay (3,000-3,500). It is expected that it will be submitted in word-processed format and must be accompanied by a bibliography and foot/endnotes conforming to established academic conventions. Students will design an individual essay topic not related to their presentation(s). This topic will form the basis of an essay question to be decided in consultation with Dr Dilley. The deadline for handing in the essay is Wednesday of teaching Week 9 not later than 12 noon. Essays will be returned with a mark taken from the Common Assessment Scale with written comments. All essays will be returned individually, providing you with the opportunity to discuss your essay, techniques of essay writing, and other aspects of the course with your tutor.

Practice Gobbets. You will be required to write a number of practice gobbets prior to the mock exam.

Mock Exam – A practice gobbet and essay exam will be held on Monday of Week 10.

LIST OF ESSAY/EXERCISE TOPICS (or refer to webpages)

These will be placed on MyAberdeen as the course progresses.

ASSESSMENT DEADLINES

Formative Essay: Wednesday Week 9, 12 noon

Deadlines for practice gobbets will be set as the course progresses. They will be handed directly to the course co-ordinator in class.

SUBMISSION ARRANGEMENTS

The Department requires ONE hard and ONE electronic copy of all assignments, as follows: COPY 1: One hard copy together with an Assessment cover sheet, typed

and double spaced – this copy should only have your ID number CLEARLY written on the cover sheet, with NO name and NO signature – and should be delivered to the History Department [Drop-off boxes located in CB008, 50-52 College Bounds].

COPY 2: One copy submitted through Turnitin via MyAberdeen.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TEXT MATCHING FUNCTIONS ON TURNITIN WILL BE ENABLED. SEE THE SCHOOL HANDBOOK FOR GUIDANCE ON PLAGARISM.

EXAMINATION

The examination will be three hours during which students will write on two

‘essay’ questions and four ‘gobbets’. The exam mark will constitute 100% of

the final mark. All work in the 12 weeks of the course will feed into your

performance in the exam. The essay and presentation give you detail on

several topics, Gobbet practice will prepare you for the Gobbet exam, while

regular preparation for seminars will give you a broad knowledge of the

primary sources, historiography, and of the period in general. Past exam

papers can be viewed at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/learning-and-

teaching/for-students/exam-papers/.