This course is an introduction to recent approaches to the study of the British Empire and draws extensively on scholarship that treats `metropole' and `colony' as a unified field of analysis. Themes include slavery and abolition, ideological justifications for empire, empires and intimacies, knowledge and power, `race' and diaspora.
This course is an introduction to recent approaches to the study of the British Empire and draws extensively on scholarship that treats `metropole' and `colony' as a unified field of analysis. Themes include slavery and abolition, ideological justifications for empire, empires and intimacies, knowledge and power, `race' and diaspora.
