Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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The Household Reckoning: Farming Families and the Female Fieldworker in Late Colonial Borneo4
The World Crafts Council and Decolonisation: India and Australia, 1960s-1980s4
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022)4
A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s3
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire3
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide3
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–19033
Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine3
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning2
Severing the Sinews of the Spanish Empire: British Naval Policy and Operations Regarding the Silver Fleets during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–17402
The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–18362
British Dominions and the Deterioration of London–Tokyo Relations in the Summer of 19402
The ILO and the Political Economy of Labour Policy Making in Nigeria, 1930–19602
The Causes of the Second Opium War and the Arrow Incident2
Fleet-footed Performers at the Edges of Colonial Law: Jack Johnson, Maud Allan and the Struggles of Cinema Censorship in British India2
Himalayan Mountaineering, Imperial Masculinity and Altitude Records Before Everest2
Nordic Connections: Norwegian and Swedish Missionaries in Changsha in the 1920s2
End of Empire and the Bomb: Britain, Malaya and Nuclear Weapons, 1956–572
Shades of White: African Climate and Jewish European Bodies, 1903–19051
Keeping Britain ‘in the Fore’: The Establishment of the British Council in South Africa and Its Contribution to the 1960 Union Festival1
Interracial Sex as Taboo: The New Imperialism, Christian Victorian Values, Nationalism, and the Legacies of Intimacy in the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1861–19141
Logistics of the First Anglo-Burma War, 1824–18261
The Philippines in Imperial History1
Creating the Peasant as Other: Self-colonisation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union1
Colonialism and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Addressing the Legacy of Injustice1
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire1
Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean1
Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–601
Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston1
The ‘Native Question’ in Australia Exploring the Anglo-Australian Humanitarian Response, 1904–19391
Nordic Connectors: The Gallen-Kallela Family and Colonial Lives in East Africa and New Mexico1
The Limitations of Social Governance in the British and American Concessions: The Child Labour Controversy in 1920s Shanghai1
Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada’s Constitutional Act of 17911
‘The Veil of Mystery:’ Imperial Intelligence in the Arabian Peninsula1
A Lake to Serve: The Exploration, Modification, and Degradation of Lake Victoria, 1920s to 1960s1
Empire-builders: Interactions between Convicts and Enslaved, Free, and Military Workers in Bermuda’s Dockyards, 1824–18381
Forced Villagisation in the Global South: Reading Post-war Rural ‘Development’ Through the Lens of Wartime Villagisation in Africa (1950–1980)1
Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India1
Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–641
Interrogating Orientalism: Hindu Festivals and Travellers’ Tales in the Colonial Indian Ocean1
The Tribulations of the Fashoda Complex Theory: Origins, Apex and Obsolescence1
Farewell to Tensions for Post-independence Algerian and Nigerian Populations: ‘Hybrid Affirmation’ as a Postcolonial Proposition1
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?1
Empires. A Historical and Political Sociology0
Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home0
The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–19020
Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong0
Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India0
Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–18380
(Re-)negotiating Masculinities in the Kampoeng : Medical Mercenaries and the Aceh War, c. 1880–18900
‘Isolated British Europeans’: How EEC Membership Helped the Gibraltarians Secure British Citizenship, 1962–19810
Expert Equestrians: How the Game of Polo Forged Masculinities in British India and the British Metropole, 1862–19140
An Alternative Macanese Public Sphere: Discussing Portuguese Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong0
Drinking for Development: Transformation of the Beer Hall System in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe0
An Exhausted Colonial Botanist: Charles Ford and Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, 1871–19020
Violence, Resilience and the ‘Coolie’ Identity: Life and Survival on Ships to the Caribbean, 1834–19170
Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945)0
Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 19110
‘A Scheming Unprincipled Native and Notorious Mischief Maker’: The 1882 Ngāpuhi Petition to Queen Victoria and Settler Disinformation in the Late Nineteenth-century British Empire0
Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea0
The Coloniser Colonised: Legacies of Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain0
Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation0
Peter Burroughs (1936–2021)0
A Place in the Empire: Gibraltar Camp in Jamaica and the British Imperial Order, 1940–19470
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–19140
‘The Angolan Experiment’: Colonial and Post-Independence Rural Social Engineering, 1960s-1980s0
The Remains of the Colonial Postcard Days: How to Come to Terms with the Imperial Gaze0
Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–19600
Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)0
A Tepid Cup of Tea: Gender and the Household Economy in Northeast Indian Plantations0
Notes on Contributors0
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–19570
‘The Straw that Broke the Back’, New Zealand and Britain’s Referendum on European Community Membership, 19750
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings0
Ethical Capitalism?0
Unmasking the Colonial Past: Memory, Narrative, and Legacy0
Emigration, War and Reconstruction: Imagining the International Dispersal of Britain in the 1940s0
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism0
Spoils of War among the Art Treasures: Exhibiting Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain0
‘Merchant Princes and Ocean Leviathans:’ the Uneven Development of the Overseas Mail, 1837–18800
An ‘Incalculable Blunder’: Empire and the British Public School, 1896–19140
Anglo-Krio Relations: A Study of a Disadvantaged Community in a Colonial Setting, 1895–19220
Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–19320
An ‘obligation which we are not entitled to get rid of’: Competing Notions of Empire and the British Opposition to the Colonial Appeasement of Germany0
Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was0
The British Labour Movement and the Strikes in Hong Kong 1925/6 and Trinidad 1937: Worlds Apart and Worlds Together0
‘A High Tory and an American upon my own Principles’: James Boswell, the American Revolution, and Royalist Constitutionalism, 1775–17830
Romance on the Afghan Frontier: Desire in the Literature of the Church Missionary Society of Peshawar0
‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables0
Decolonising the ‘Long Boom’: New Histories of the Global South, 1945–19900
‘Pen Pals – the Significance of the Release of the “Palace Letters” in Australia’0
EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?0
Imagining an Imperial Future: Mountaineering and Nostalgia on British India’s Himalayan Frontier, 1927–19400
Subjects of Difference: Māori Petitions and the Late-Nineteenth Century Colonial State0
Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean0
Notes on Contributors0
Sovereignty After the Empire and the Search for a New Order: India’s Attempt to Negotiate a Common Citizenship in the Commonwealth (1947–1949)0
British Power in the Mediterranean: Sea Protests and Notarial Practice in Nineteenth-century Malta0
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana0
An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s0
Inter-imperial ‘45: War, Geopolitics, and the Entanglements of Rebellion, 1745–17630
The Value of Words – Wampum in Iroquois Diplomatic Petitions of the Removal Era0
Imperial Connections between Ireland and India in the Late Eighteenth Century0
‘Experts’, Settlers and Africans: The Production of Local Agricultural and Veterinary Knowledge in Southern Rhodesia (1897–1914)0
Engraved Stories of Empire: An Examination of Selected Images from the Missionary Register , 1813–18550
Latin American World Model: A Third-World Voice to Face Limits to Growth0
Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland0
Scouting in Iran Amid Changing Practices of Masculinity and Childhood0
Trump and the Commonwealth0
Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower0
‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ (Nhasi tinokama imbwa)* – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–19500
‘Making Manly Men’: Manufacturing Boyhood in the Great Outdoors and the Boy Scout Movement in British Malaya (1910–1966)0
‘Mr Wakefield’s Speaking Trumpets’: Abolishing Slavery and Colonising Systematically0
A Nordic Colonial Career Across Borders: Hjalmar Björling in the Dutch East Indies and China0
Genocide in Gaza and the End of Settler Colonialism0
The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History0
Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–19390
Trans-Tasman Liaison: Australasian Defence Co-ordination and the New Zealand Military Liaison Offices in Australia, 1932–480
Rural Healthcare in Colonial Bengal: The Role, Responsibilities, and Restraints of Union Boards, 1920s–1930s0
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances0
Brexit and the ‘Imperial Factor’: A longue durée Approach to British Exceptionalism0
Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan0
Practical Christianity in Practice: Chinese Youth Culture and the Scouting Movement as Seen by British Missionaries at the Griffith John College, Hankou, 1915–19250
Reanalysing Ireland’s Exit from the Commonwealth 1948–49: The Brexit Isles’ Alter Ego?0
‘A Matter of Doubt and Uncertainty’: John Gladstone and the Post-Slavery Framework of Labour in the British Empire0
Come By Chance: Newfoundland and Global Medical Migration, 1950–19760
‘Amenable to Civil Power’: The Influence of the Periphery on British Policy on New Zealand, 1831 to 18370
‘Their Flag has Failed Them’ – Moral Panic and the Imagined Survivors of the SS Douglas Mawson0
The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–16830
The Maltese Fulcrum: Strategy and Fantasy in the Early Nineteenth-century British Mediterranean0
Kings of Quinine: The Pharmakina Company and West German Pharmaceutical Production in Postcolonial Zaire During the Long Boom0
‘”A Damnable Blaze”: John Loader Maffey, the North-West Frontier and the Abduction of Mollie Ellis, 1919 – 1923’0
Bringing Murderers to Justice in Late Colonial Burma0
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
Libels, Licenses, Liberties: Conceptualising Freedom of Speech in Colonial and Postcolonial India0
‘A Somewhat Lethargic Approach’: Britain and the Grenada Crisis, 19830
‘Saviour’ of the Empire: Jan Smuts’s Conceptualisation of the British Commonwealth of Nations0
Speaking as a Colonial State: Mass Broadcasting and the Language of Development in Northern Rhodesia, 1941–19630
Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–19600
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism0
Colonial Fragility: British Embarrassment and the So-called ‘Migrated Archives’0
‘Abroad Was Where It all Happened’: Inter-war and Post-war Sponsored Migration to the Commonwealth0
‘Slow death in India against quick death in Pakistan … ’: Indian Christian Politics During the Punjab Partition0
The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana0
British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India0
‘Shipwrecked in Jerusalem’: British Amateur Theatre and Colonial Culture in Mandatory Palestine0
Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against ‘Perpetrator and ‘Victim’0
‘One Man Lobby’? Propaganda, Nationalism in the Diaspora, and the India League of America During the Second World War0
The Empire as a Social Machine: Robert Wilmot-Horton on Emigration, Population and Capital Accumulation0
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa0
Reviewing the 1943 Sino-British Treaty Negotiations: The United States’ Role in Ending British Imperialism in China0
He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore0
Concealing Colonial Comparability: British Exceptionalism, Imperial Violence, and the Dynamiting of Cave Refuges in Southern Africa, 1879–18970
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-19410
Political Disillusionment and the Fine Line Between Independence and Neo-colonialism in Early Post-colonial Africa: A Literary and Historical Perspective from Senegal with Aminata Sow Fall0
Revolution in Populism: Anticolonial Developmentalism in Brazil’s Populist Republic0
The Parthenon Marbles: Imperialism and Diasporic Memory0
From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’: Africa and the Global Radical-Right in the Geographical Imagination of UDI-Era Rhodesian Propaganda, 1962–19700
‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–18500
Government and Politics in the Gambia, 1816–18660
Reasons for Hope? The UK Social Attitudes Survey and Historical Literacy0
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World0
A ‘Mudbank’ or ‘the Most Dangerous Area in the World’? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America0
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–19600
To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914)0
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture0
A Poorly Invented Tradition?La Semaine coloniale française 1927–1939in its Transnational Context0
Police, Processions, and Pacification: The Canboulay and Hosay Riots in 1880s Trinidad0
Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature0
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–19590
Revisiting Approaches to British Imperialism0
‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–550
Andrew Porter (1945–2021)0
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)0
Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa0
Notes on Contributors0
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia0
Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–19590
Small Wars and Pacification in the British Empire: A Case Study of Lushai Hills, 1850–19000
Contesting the Royal Prerogative of Mercy: The Queen’s Pardons and the 1968 Constitutional Crisis over the Death Penalty in Rhodesia0
Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives0
Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation0
The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–19470
Governing Over Distance: Delegating Trust and Dealing with Disorder in the Early East India Company Trade0
Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire0
Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives0
‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making0
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu: Railways and Shifting Meanings of Travel in Late Colonial India0
The Dum-Dum Controversy: Rifle Ammunition in British Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Salt, Smuggling, and Sovereignty: The Burma-China Borderland, c. 1880–19350
Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus: Rupert Gunnis, the ‘Uncrowned King’, and his Sudden Downfall0
‘Botha Cake’ and ‘Belgian Onion Soup:’ Gendered Patriotism Through Three South African, First World War, Community Cookbooks0
On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester0
On Accumulation and Empire0
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya0
The Bison in the Room: Hunting, Settler Colonialism and Gender Performance on the American Frontier, 1865–18950
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