Connected Empires, Connected Worlds

Robert S.G. Fletcher is Professor of History and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. He previously worked at Warwick and Exeter, and as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at Oxford. His publications include British Imperialism and the ‘Tribal Question’ (2015), and The Ghost of Namamugi (2019). Benjamin Mountford is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Britain, China & Colonial Australia (2016) and co-editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World (2017) and A Global History of Gold Rushes (2018). Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol, UK, and the author of Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British World, 1922-1970 (2012), British Imperial History (2015), and Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939 (2021).

Introduction – Making Connections: John Darwin and his Histories of Empire Bibliography 1. Unfinished Decolonisation and Globalisation 2. The China of Tomorrow: Japan and the Limits of Victorian Expansion 3. Liberia an(d) Empire?: Sovereignty, ‘Civilisation’ and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century West Africa 4. Colonial Australia, the 1887 Colonial Conference, and the Struggle for Imperial Unity 5. Colonial Emulation, Competition and Opportunism: A Twentieth-Century Spanish Perspective on the British and French ‘Empire Projects’ 6. Democratisation and the British Empire 7. Complicating Decolonisation: Mozambican Indian Experiences in the Twentieth Century 8. Britishness Reconsidered: Interplay Between Immigration and Nationality Legislation and Policymaking in Twenty-first Century Britain 9. Imperial Projections & Crisis: The Liberal International Order as a ‘Pseudo-Empire’