Mark Doyle
Reading List for Comps
British Empire
East India Company
Lawson, Philip. The East India Company: A History. 1993.
Sutherland, Lucy. The East India Company in Eighteenth Century Politics. 1952.
Bowen, H. V.
General Empire / Theories of Imperialism
Bayly, C. A. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830. 1989.
Robinson, Ronald, “Non-European foundations of European imperialism: sketch for a
theory of collaboration.” In Studies in the Theory of Imperialism, Roger Owen
and Bob Sutcliffe, ed. 1972.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Industry and Empire. 1999.
Robinson and Gallagher, “The Imperialism of Free Trade.” In The Economic History
Review, no. 1, 1953, p. 1-15.
Platt, D. C. M., “The Imperialism of Free Trade: Some Reservations.” In The Economic
History Review, no. 2, 1968, p. 296-306.
Platt, D. C. M., “Further Objections to ‘An Imperialism of Free Trade’, 1830-60.” In The
Economic History Review, 1973, no. 1, p. 77-90.
Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher with Alice Denny, Africa and the Victorians: The
Official Mind of Imperialism. 1961.
Cain, P. C. and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 16881914. 1993.
British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 19141990. 1993.
Dumett, Raymond, ed. Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New
Debate on Empire. 1999. (Introduction)
Culture
Coombes, Annie. Reinventing Africa: Museums, material culture, and popular
imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England. 1994.
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and recovery of self under colonialism. 1983.
Wilson, Kathleen, “Empire, Trade and Popular Politics in Mid-Hanoverian Britain: The
case of Admiral Vernon.” In Past and Present 121, 1988, p. 74-109.
Codell, Julie F. and Dianne Sachko Macleod, ed., Orientalism Transposed: The impact of
the colonies on British Culture. 1998.
Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Tensions of Empire: Colonial cultures in a
bourgeois world. 1997.
Schwarz, Bill, ed. The Expansion of England: Race, ethnicity and cultural history. 1996.
MacKenzie, John M., Propaganda and Empire: The manipulation of British public
opinion, 1880-1960. 1984.
MacKenzie, John M., “Empire and Metropolitan Cultures.” In The Oxford History of the
British Empire, vol. 3. Andrew Porter, ed., p. 270-293. 1999.
Race
Lorimer, Douglas, Colour, Class and the Victorians: English attitudes to the Negro in the
mid-nineteenth century. 1978.
Holt, Thomas, The Problem of Freedom: Race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and
Britain, 1832-1938. 1992.