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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–554
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022)3
The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History3
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–19593
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–19032
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances2
The Household Reckoning: Farming Families and the Female Fieldworker in Late Colonial Borneo2
Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature2
Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–19322
Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa2
A Tepid Cup of Tea: Gender and the Household Economy in Northeast Indian Plantations2
Andrew Porter (1945–2021)2
Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)2
Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–19602
The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–19472
‘Their Flag has Failed Them’ – Moral Panic and the Imagined Survivors of the SS Douglas Mawson1
American Empire in Global History1
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire1
An ‘obligation which we are not entitled to get rid of’: Competing Notions of Empire and the British Opposition to the Colonial Appeasement of Germany1
The World Crafts Council and Decolonisation: India and Australia, 1960s-1980s1
‘Mr Wakefield’s Speaking Trumpets’: Abolishing Slavery and Colonising Systematically1
The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–19021
Come By Chance: Newfoundland and Global Medical Migration, 1950–19761
The Frontiers of Empire: Colonial Policing in Southern Palestine, Sinai, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia1
Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives1
Reanalysing Ireland’s Exit from the Commonwealth 1948–49: The Brexit Isles’ Alter Ego?1
Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–19391
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)1
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide1
Response: Imperial Puzzles1
Fleet-footed Performers at the Edges of Colonial Law: Jack Johnson, Maud Allan and the Struggles of Cinema Censorship in British India1
Peter Burroughs (1936–2021)1
A Place in the Empire: Gibraltar Camp in Jamaica and the British Imperial Order, 1940–19471
To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914)1
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–19571
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–19141
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism1
The Maltese Fulcrum: Strategy and Fantasy in the Early Nineteenth-century British Mediterranean1
Engraved Stories of Empire: An Examination of Selected Images from the Missionary Register , 1813–18550
‘One Man Lobby’? Propaganda, Nationalism in the Diaspora, and the India League of America During the Second World War0
Notes on Contributors0
The Philippines in Imperial History0
An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s0
Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945)0
Himalayan Mountaineering, Imperial Masculinity and Altitude Records Before Everest0
Nordic Connectors: The Gallen-Kallela Family and Colonial Lives in East Africa and New Mexico0
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya0
Emigration, War and Reconstruction: Imagining the International Dispersal of Britain in the 1940s0
On Accumulation and Empire0
Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century0
Kings of Quinine: The Pharmakina Company and West German Pharmaceutical Production in Postcolonial Zaire During the Long Boom0
Revolution in Populism: Anticolonial Developmentalism in Brazil’s Populist Republic0
‘Merchant Princes and Ocean Leviathans:’ the Uneven Development of the Overseas Mail, 1837–18800
Creating the Peasant as Other: Self-colonisation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union0
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia0
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
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong0
Romance on the Afghan Frontier: Desire in the Literature of the Church Missionary Society of Peshawar0
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–19600
Shades of White: African Climate and Jewish European Bodies, 1903–19050
‘A High Tory and an American upon my own Principles’: James Boswell, the American Revolution, and Royalist Constitutionalism, 1775–17830
An Exhausted Colonial Botanist: Charles Ford and Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, 1871–19020
Colonialism and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Addressing the Legacy of Injustice0
A Poorly Invented Tradition?La Semaine coloniale française 1927–1939in its Transnational Context0
Government and Politics in the Gambia, 1816–18660
‘Pen Pals – the Significance of the Release of the “Palace Letters” in Australia’0
‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–18500
Colonial Fragility: British Embarrassment and the So-called ‘Migrated Archives’0
‘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
Salt, Smuggling, and Sovereignty: The Burma-China Borderland, c. 1880–19350
Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire0
Libels, Licenses, Liberties: Conceptualising Freedom of Speech in Colonial and Postcolonial India0
An Alternative Macanese Public Sphere: Discussing Portuguese Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong0
Notes on Contributors0
Drinking for Development: Transformation of the Beer Hall System in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe0
Latin American World Model: A Third-World Voice to Face Limits to Growth0
Notes on Contributors0
Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–18380
‘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
Scouting in Iran Amid Changing Practices of Masculinity and Childhood0
Unmasking the Colonial Past: Memory, Narrative, and Legacy0
The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution0
Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean0
The Coloniser Colonised: Legacies of Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain0
Contesting the Royal Prerogative of Mercy: The Queen’s Pardons and the 1968 Constitutional Crisis over the Death Penalty in Rhodesia0
A Lake to Serve: The Exploration, Modification, and Degradation of Lake Victoria, 1920s to 1960s0
Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was0
End of Empire and the Bomb: Britain, Malaya and Nuclear Weapons, 1956–570
Speaking as a Colonial State: Mass Broadcasting and the Language of Development in Northern Rhodesia, 1941–19630
Ethical Capitalism?0
The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–18360
The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana0
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
A Nordic Colonial Career Across Borders: Hjalmar Björling in the Dutch East Indies and China0
Inter-imperial ‘45: War, Geopolitics, and the Entanglements of Rebellion, 1745–17630
Cuba: Context and Consequences for the American Empire0
Nordic Connections: Norwegian and Swedish Missionaries in Changsha in the 1920s0
Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada’s Constitutional Act of 17910
Farewell to Tensions for Post-independence Algerian and Nigerian Populations: ‘Hybrid Affirmation’ as a Postcolonial Proposition0
Concealing Colonial Comparability: British Exceptionalism, Imperial Violence, and the Dynamiting of Cave Refuges in Southern Africa, 1879–18970
Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India0
Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–19590
‘Botha Cake’ and ‘Belgian Onion Soup:’ Gendered Patriotism Through Three South African, First World War, Community Cookbooks0
Interrogating Orientalism: Hindu Festivals and Travellers’ Tales in the Colonial Indian Ocean0
Keeping Britain ‘in the Fore’: The Establishment of the British Council in South Africa and Its Contribution to the 1960 Union Festival0
Empire-builders: Interactions between Convicts and Enslaved, Free, and Military Workers in Bermuda’s Dockyards, 1824–18380
‘Making Manly Men’: Manufacturing Boyhood in the Great Outdoors and the Boy Scout Movement in British Malaya (1910–1966)0
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana0
The Tribulations of the Fashoda Complex Theory: Origins, Apex and Obsolescence0
Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation0
An ‘Incalculable Blunder’: Empire and the British Public School, 1896–19140
Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea0
United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-century0
‘Abroad Was Where It all Happened’: Inter-war and Post-war Sponsored Migration to the Commonwealth0
The Remains of the Colonial Postcard Days: How to Come to Terms with the Imperial Gaze0
Small Wars and Pacification in the British Empire: A Case Study of Lushai Hills, 1850–19000
Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home0
Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire0
Spoils of War among the Art Treasures: Exhibiting Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain0
‘Shipwrecked in Jerusalem’: British Amateur Theatre and Colonial Culture in Mandatory Palestine0
‘Isolated British Europeans’: How EEC Membership Helped the Gibraltarians Secure British Citizenship, 1962–19810
The ‘Native Question’ in Australia Exploring the Anglo-Australian Humanitarian Response, 1904–19390
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
Decolonising the ‘Long Boom’: New Histories of the Global South, 1945–19900
Expert Equestrians: How the Game of Polo Forged Masculinities in British India and the British Metropole, 1862–19140
Interracial Sex as Taboo: The New Imperialism, Christian Victorian Values, Nationalism, and the Legacies of Intimacy in the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1861–19140
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa0
Bringing Murderers to Justice in Late Colonial Burma0
Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–19600
From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’: Africa and the Global Radical-Right in the Geographical Imagination of UDI-Era Rhodesian Propaganda, 1962–19700
‘The Straw that Broke the Back’, New Zealand and Britain’s Referendum on European Community Membership, 19750
Imperial Connections between Ireland and India in the Late Eighteenth Century0
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World0
The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins'sAmerican Empire0
‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making0
(Re-)negotiating Masculinities in the Kampoeng : Medical Mercenaries and the Aceh War, c. 1880–18900
Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean0
Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India0
Severing the Sinews of the Spanish Empire: British Naval Policy and Operations Regarding the Silver Fleets during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–17400
Trans-Tasman Liaison: Australasian Defence Co-ordination and the New Zealand Military Liaison Offices in Australia, 1932–480
Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus: Rupert Gunnis, the ‘Uncrowned King’, and his Sudden Downfall0
‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables0
‘A Matter of Doubt and Uncertainty’: John Gladstone and the Post-Slavery Framework of Labour in the British Empire0
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire0
Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan0
The ILO and the Political Economy of Labour Policy Making in Nigeria, 1930–19600
Violence, Resilience and the ‘Coolie’ Identity: Life and Survival on Ships to the Caribbean, 1834–19170
‘The Angolan Experiment’: Colonial and Post-Independence Rural Social Engineering, 1960s-1980s0
‘Experts’, Settlers and Africans: The Production of Local Agricultural and Veterinary Knowledge in Southern Rhodesia (1897–1914)0
The Bison in the Room: Hunting, Settler Colonialism and Gender Performance on the American Frontier, 1865–18950
On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester0
The British Labour Movement and the Strikes in Hong Kong 1925/6 and Trinidad 1937: Worlds Apart and Worlds Together0
Reviewing the 1943 Sino-British Treaty Negotiations: The United States’ Role in Ending British Imperialism in China0
Notes on Contributors0
Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–600
Practical Christianity in Practice: Chinese Youth Culture and the Scouting Movement as Seen by British Missionaries at the Griffith John College, Hankou, 1915–19250
Restoring Asia to the Global Moment of 18980
Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–640
Brexit and the ‘Imperial Factor’: A longue durée Approach to British Exceptionalism0
Anglo-Krio Relations: A Study of a Disadvantaged Community in a Colonial Setting, 1895–19220
Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives0
Governing Over Distance: Delegating Trust and Dealing with Disorder in the Early East India Company Trade0
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning0
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu: Railways and Shifting Meanings of Travel in Late Colonial India0
‘A Somewhat Lethargic Approach’: Britain and the Grenada Crisis, 19830
‘”A Damnable Blaze”: John Loader Maffey, the North-West Frontier and the Abduction of Mollie Ellis, 1919 – 1923’0
Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland0
Forced Villagisation in the Global South: Reading Post-war Rural ‘Development’ Through the Lens of Wartime Villagisation in Africa (1950–1980)0
‘The Veil of Mystery:’ Imperial Intelligence in the Arabian Peninsula0
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?0
A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s0
‘Amenable to Civil Power’: The Influence of the Periphery on British Policy on New Zealand, 1831 to 18370
British Power in the Mediterranean: Sea Protests and Notarial Practice in Nineteenth-century Malta0
Logistics of the First Anglo-Burma War, 1824–18260
Informal Empire and the Cold War0
Empires. A Historical and Political Sociology0
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