Schools of Imperial Historiography
John "Jack" Gallagher and Ronald Robinson are crediting as the originators of what school of thought?
What is the Cambridge School of Imperial Historiography?
"Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild - Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
1834
When was slavery outlawed in the British Empire
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are all considered to be what kind of colonies?
What are "White Settler Colonies"?
This journalist and economist who covered the 2nd Anglo-Boer War is credited with writing the first critical study of imperialism, which he related to the advance of industrial capitalism.
Who was J.A. Hobson?
This Indian scholar is credited with organising what later became known as Subaltern Studies.
Who is Ranajit Guha?
"Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism"
Who is V.I. Lenin
In this year, the largest rebellion against British Imperial authority began
What was 1775?
In what region of India was the power of the East India Company originally focused?
"Slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire. In modern times it provided the sugar for the tea and the coffee cups of the Western world. It produced the cotton to serve as a base for modern capitalism. It made the American South and the Caribbean islands"
Who was Eric Williams?
These two scholars are credited with mounting a successful reinterpretation of the relationship between economics, politics, and culture in the British Empire.
Who are Cain and Hopkins?
"This, too, was once one of the dark places of the earth."
1865
What year was the Morant Bay Rebellion?
What are British Guiana or Trinidad?
This research project, originally based at UCL, has attempted to trace every single person compensated by the British Government for the value of their slaves that were freed during emancipation, how many slaves they owned, and how much they received.
What is the Legacies of British Slavery Project?
Antoinette Burton, Mrinalini Sinha, and Catherine Hall are all associated with what school of imperial history?
New Imperial History
"From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself."
Who was Edward Said?
1901
In what year was Australia confederated into a single administrative territory?
The name of what imperial city, founded by Samford Raffles, translates from the indigenous language as "Lion City?"
What is Singapore?
This former Oxford don and emigre to Australia was the author of National Life and Character: A Forecast
Charles Pearson.
Name the scholar who formulated "the decline thesis" with regards to the abolition of slavery in the empire.
Seymour Drescher
"It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own."
Who is Antonio Gramsci
1600
In what year was the East India Company founded?
This island colony, which the British seized from the French during the Napoleonic Wars, was the last region of the globe to be discovered and populated by humans.
What is Mauritius?
Name any one of the original endowed Chairs in British Imperial History
What was the Vere Harmsworth Chair, the Rhodes Chair, and the Beik Chair