16 Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: ‘Liberal Education’ and Imperial Legacies, 1945–70

Boydell and Brewer eBooks · 2024-10-13

JBR volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Journal of British Studies · 2023 · 1 citations

• Computer Science
• Computer Science
• Engineering

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Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

Leiden University Press eBooks · 2020 · 19 citations

• Sociology
• Political Science
• History

This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as well as the imaginaries and representations of slaves rather than the trade in slaves itself.

“Fire by Night, Cloud by Day”: Exile and Refuge in Postwar London

Journal of British Studies · 2020-01-01 · 1 citations

Abstract Susan Pennybacker's presidential plenary to the 2017 North American Conference on British Studies in Denver, Colorado, explores the lives of four of the subjects of her book (in progress) of the same title. It identifies the kinds of archival and ethnographic sources that allow new treatments of the exile, émigré, and expatriate communities of London after the close of World War II and of those who contributed in various ways to the ethos of metropolitan political culture in the “late empire” and Cold War era. The essay focuses on the South African Ruth First, the Indian diplomat Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian academician Achin Vanaik, and the South Asian Londoner Suresh Grover, a member of the Monitoring Group, a legal assistance and anti-discrimination organization in the capital. It suggests the importance of scholarship that reckons with known and notable activist persons who led and represented many others in their challenges to global politics from a base in the “mammoth crossroads, the secure and unsafe haven that is London.”

JBR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Journal of British Studies · 2020 · 1 citations

• Computer Science
• Computer Science
• Engineering

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Rob Waters. Thinking Black: Britain, 1964–1985.

The American Historical Review · 2019-12-30

Historical studies of metropolitan Britain have long excluded robust discussions of racial-political histories. Yet the field is now being awakened from slumber by new works of magnitude, as young scholars mine community-based archives as well as government-housed records, and as they speak in depth with those still living. Rob Waters’s splendid contribution to this recent literature is instantly a work of seminal importance and impact; it sets a new standard for cataloguing and referencing black British activists and organizations, and for the depiction of their written, spoken, and visual records. Those who write histories of modern British political culture risk narratives that could appear impoverished and diminished without a reckoning with this growing body of work. The etiquette that sidelines black British history far from the central political plotline or that relegates it to efforts in journalism and social media, to public history and museums, to the social science of “race relations,” and to the postcolonial histories of territories and peoples outside the Isles can no longer survive scrutiny given the new scholarly level of production about events unmistakably transpiring “at home” whose transnational links are understood.

JBR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Journal of British Studies · 2019-07-01

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The New Deal: A Global History. <i>By</i> Kiran Klaus Patel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xii + 435 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17615-4.

The Business History Review · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations

The New Deal: A Global History. By Kiran Klaus Patel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xii + 435 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17615-4. - Volume 92 Issue 2

JBR volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Journal of British Studies · 2018-06-29 · 1 citations

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JBR volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

Journal of British Studies · 2018-10-01 · 1 citations

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