Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The Household Reckoning: Farming Families and the Female Fieldworker in Late Colonial Borneo12
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire7
The World Crafts Council and Decolonisation: India and Australia, 1960s-1980s7
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–19035
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022)5
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State5
Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine4
A Commonwealth Union for Anglo-Atlantic Empire: Sir William Keith on the Political Economy of ‘ Publick Spirit3
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning3
History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives3
Contested Liabilities: Financing Trunk Air Route Facilities in British Colonial Africa, 1945–19513
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide3
The Causes of the Second Opium War and the Arrow Incident3
End of Empire and the Bomb: Britain, Malaya and Nuclear Weapons, 1956–573
A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s3
Severing the Sinews of the Spanish Empire: British Naval Policy and Operations Regarding the Silver Fleets during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1737–17403
British Dominions and the Deterioration of London–Tokyo Relations in the Summer of 19403
From Neglect to Compromise: The McMahon Line and the Dilemmas of British Policy towards Tibet, 1914–19472
Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880: Decarbonising Imperial History2
The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–18362
Nordic Connections: Norwegian and Swedish Missionaries in Changsha in the 1920s2
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire2
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?2
Containment and Engagement: Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand’s Cold War Relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1980s2
Himalayan Mountaineering, Imperial Masculinity and Altitude Records Before Everest2
Farewell to Tensions for Post-independence Algerian and Nigerian Populations: ‘Hybrid Affirmation’ as a Postcolonial Proposition2
‘The Veil of Mystery:’ Imperial Intelligence in the Arabian Peninsula2
Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–18152
Intra-Caribbean Diplomacy and Imperial Negotiation; Edward Trelawny, the Marquis de Larnage, and Anglo-French relations in the West Indies, 1720–17482
The Effects of Regional Colonial Discourse on Colonial Strategy: British Colonial War on Bhutan from 1840–18671
The Bankruptcy of the ‘South Sea Kings’: Plantation Business, Labour Recruitment and German Politics in the Western Pacific, 1870s and 1880s1
Forced Villagisation in the Global South: Reading Post-war Rural ‘Development’ Through the Lens of Wartime Villagisation in Africa (1950–1980)1
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism1
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 America1
Multicultural Britain: A People’s History1
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings1
Sailing for Crown and Curiosity: Prince Alfred’s Mediterranean Voyage1
The Tribulations of the Fashoda Complex Theory: Origins, Apex and Obsolescence1
Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–641
‘Alien’ Colonial Law, Anglo–Chinese Power Relations, and the End of the Hong Kong Refugee Regime1
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World1
The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-19141
AI Empire: The Rise of Technocolonialism1
Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean1
Interrogating Orientalism: Hindu Festivals and Travellers’ Tales in the Colonial Indian Ocean1
Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland1
Genocide in Gaza and the End of Settler Colonialism1
Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–19601
Creating the Peasant as Other: Self-colonisation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union1
Interracial Sex as Taboo: The New Imperialism, Christian Victorian Values, Nationalism, and the Legacies of Intimacy in the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1861–19141
The Limitations of Social Governance in the British and American Concessions: The Child Labour Controversy in 1920s Shanghai1
Nordic Connectors: The Gallen-Kallela Family and Colonial Lives in East Africa and New Mexico1
Colonialism and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Addressing the Legacy of Injustice1
Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston1
Empire-builders: Interactions between Convicts and Enslaved, Free, and Military Workers in Bermuda’s Dockyards, 1824–18381
‘Britain’s Wars are our Wars’: The Politics and Economics of Southern Rhodesia’s Support for Britain During the Second World War, 1939–19451
When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century1
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances1
‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–18501
Police, Processions, and Pacification: The Canboulay and Hosay Riots in 1880s Trinidad1
Decolonisation and Environmentalism: Bringing the Winds of Change to Global Environmental History1
Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India1
Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–601
The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission1
Logistics of the First Anglo-Burma War, 1824–18261
Decolonisation, Unstable Sovereignties and Development: The Indian Sterling Balance Negotiations of 19471
James Flint and the 1759 Petition: The Influence of British Intermediaries on the East India Company's China Trade and Sino-British Encounters0
The East India Company as Landowner0
‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables0
Imagining an Imperial Future: Mountaineering and Nostalgia on British India’s Himalayan Frontier, 1927–19400
Reappraising Donald Cameron's 1934 Native Administration Reforms in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria0
‘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
Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)0
On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester0
Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-20000
Being Economical with the Truth: Dutch Public Claims and Hidden Agendas about Papuan Self-Determination and the Economic Exploitation of Netherlands New Guinea0
Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 19110
Revolution in Populism: Anticolonial Developmentalism in Brazil’s Populist Republic0
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu: Railways and Shifting Meanings of Travel in Late Colonial India0
Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums0
Emigration, War and Reconstruction: Imagining the International Dispersal of Britain in the 1940s0
The Unexpected Friend: Anglo-Rwandan Relations from the Civil War to the Commonwealth (1990–2009)0
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World0
Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India0
Imperial Reach Through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa0
The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence0
Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation0
The Empire as a Social Machine: Robert Wilmot-Horton on Emigration, Population and Capital Accumulation0
Laboratory of Empire: Calcutta, Opium, and the Wartime Invention of Regulation0
Circumvention of Most-Favoured-Nation clause by the policy of Imperial Preferences0
‘Isolated British Europeans’: How EEC Membership Helped the Gibraltarians Secure British Citizenship, 1962–19810
Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa0
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence0
Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II0
Black Essential Workers, Racialised Citizenship and Community ‘Friendliness’: The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941–19430
Resistance in the Penal Space: Andaman Hunger Strikes and the Inverted Narrative of India’s Struggle for Freedom0
A Peaceful Place: Raising Imperial Children at China’s Moganshan Hill Station0
EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?0
A Poorly Invented Tradition?La Semaine coloniale française 1927–1939in its Transnational Context0
Missionaries and Mau Mau: The Opportunities of Rehabilitation and the NGO-isation of the Christian Council of Kenya0
Trump and the Commonwealth0
The British Labour Movement and the Strikes in Hong Kong 1925/6 and Trinidad 1937: Worlds Apart and Worlds Together0
Greek Islander Migration to Australian since the 1950s: (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home0
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law0
If One is A Soldier of Our Great Empire There Should Be No Discrimination: Service and Mortality in Britain’s East African Colonial Military0
Business and Labour in German Colonialism. An Introduction0
Late Colonial Unreason0
Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine0
The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s0
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth0
Working Through a War: The Traders of John Holt & Co. in Cameroon During the First World War0
Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan0
Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was0
The Origins and Development of Bagpiping in Colonial Hong Kong, 1841–1941: Military Tradition and Civilian Practice0
From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–19970
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters0
‘Amenable to Civil Power’: The Influence of the Periphery on British Policy on New Zealand, 1831 to 18370
The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–16830
Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia0
Brexit and the ‘Imperial Factor’: A longue durée Approach to British Exceptionalism0
A Tepid Cup of Tea: Gender and the Household Economy in Northeast Indian Plantations0
Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–19180
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century0
Beyond the Christian Question: Henry Bulwer and the Ottoman Reform (1858–1865)0
Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–19320
The Social Transactional Exchange in the Development of Colonial Education in Baringo, Kenya, 1908–19470
‘Scientific Salvation’ and Development: Britain, South Africa and the African Regional Scientific Conference, October 19490
Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1960s–1970s: The Ends of (Informal) External Association0
Anglo-Krio Relations: A Study of a Disadvantaged Community in a Colonial Setting, 1895–19220
Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature0
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
Empires. A Historical and Political Sociology0
The Elusive Australian Republic: A Short History of the Debate0
Concealing Colonial Comparability: British Exceptionalism, Imperial Violence, and the Dynamiting of Cave Refuges in Southern Africa, 1879–18970
Rubber Crisis and the Malayan Emergency0
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism0
Against a Mercatorial Sovereignty: The British Imperial State and the East India Company, 1783–17840
Military Justice in the Field: Law, Order and Violence in the Prosecutors’ Archives of Belgian Colonial Troops at ‘War’0
Reasonable Parties: Empire and Ethnonationalism in Burma and Malaya, 1945–19480
An Alternative Macanese Public Sphere: Discussing Portuguese Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong0
Small Wars and Pacification in the British Empire: A Case Study of Lushai Hills, 1850–19000
‘Conquest’ Zomia: The British Raj and the Panthay Intermediaries in the Chin-Lushai Hills0
The Value of Words – Wampum in Iroquois Diplomatic Petitions of the Removal Era0
Notes on Contributors0
Bringing Murderers to Justice in Late Colonial Burma0
Kings of Quinine: The Pharmakina Company and West German Pharmaceutical Production in Postcolonial Zaire During the Long Boom0
Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–19600
The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty0
The End of the Museum: Culture, Colonialism, and Liberation0
Latin American World Model: A Third-World Voice to Face Limits to Growth0
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa0
Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect0
Persuasive Forests for Maritime Britain: Canada and Britain’s Maritime Power from the War of the Spanish Succession to the Seven Years’ War0
The Remains of the Colonial Postcard Days: How to Come to Terms with the Imperial Gaze0
Missing the Bolt from the Blue: British Intelligence and the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 19190
The Parthenon Marbles: Imperialism and Diasporic Memory0
Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment0
The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence0
‘Recorded Facts’ and ‘Different Stories’: A Response to Catharine Titi0
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–19140
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia0
‘The Angolan Experiment’: Colonial and Post-Independence Rural Social Engineering, 1960s-1980s0
Spoils of War among the Art Treasures: Exhibiting Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain0
Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonisation in Postwar British West Africa, 1945–19600
Displacement and Resilience: Scottish Highland Communities in Nova Scotia, 1810–18500
Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower0
On Site. Colonial Labour, Business and the Construction of the Swakopmund Jetty, c. 1911–19150
No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy0
Churchill and Industrial Britain: Liberalism, Empire and Employment, 1900–19290
Curating the Colonial Past: The “Migrated Archives” and the Struggle for Kenya’s History0
Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 20200
Notes on Contributors0
Unmasking the Colonial Past: Memory, Narrative, and Legacy0
Army, Empire & Film: British Imperial Conflict on Screen0
(Re-)negotiating Masculinities in the Kampoeng : Medical Mercenaries and the Aceh War, c. 1880–18900
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism0
The Bison in the Room: Hunting, Settler Colonialism and Gender Performance on the American Frontier, 1865–18950
Between Paternal Power and Prerogative: The Reformatory Origins of Protection in the British Empire (1788–1888)0
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–19570
An Exhausted Colonial Botanist: Charles Ford and Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, 1871–19020
Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea0
Central Banking on Independence: The Birth of the National Bank of Libya0
The Monitoring Physician – Railway Labour, the Colonial Gaze, and Snapshots of African Agency in German Kamerun0
‘Making Manly Men’: Manufacturing Boyhood in the Great Outdoors and the Boy Scout Movement in British Malaya (1910–1966)0
‘A Brave People United’: Warfare, Race, and the Making of the Martial Sikh0
Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives0
The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History0
The Debate over British Reparations for Mandate-Era Governance of Palestine? Three views0
‘A Somewhat Lethargic Approach’: Britain and the Grenada Crisis, 19830
Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against ‘Perpetrator and ‘Victim’0
Visibility and Invisibility: An Examination of Hong Kong’s Film Censorship System during the Cold War Period0
Saving as a ‘Civilising’ Measure in the British Empire: The Case of the Jamaican Trustee Savings Banks, 1834–1870.0
‘Botha Cake’ and ‘Belgian Onion Soup:’ Gendered Patriotism Through Three South African, First World War, Community Cookbooks0
‘Their Flag has Failed Them’ – Moral Panic and the Imagined Survivors of the SS Douglas Mawson0
Mobilising Xenophobia and Making Colonialism at the British Cape of Good Hope: Emigrants, Africans, and Repealers in the Politics of the 1849 Anti-Convict Movement0
Assessing Resistance in Morocco: Comparative European Perceptions During the Early Protectorate (1912–1936)0
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ‘Third Reich’0
‘British Corporate Imperialism and Sovereignty in Interwar Greece: The Power and Traction Question’0
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana0
Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa0
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?0
Nasser’s Islamic Propaganda and British Decolonisation Policy in Northern Nigeria0
Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation0
Engraved Stories of Empire: An Examination of Selected Images from the Missionary Register , 1813–18550
Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India0
To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914)0
Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives0
Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945)0
Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire0
‘Merchant Princes and Ocean Leviathans:’ the Uneven Development of the Overseas Mail, 1837–18800
Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World0
‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey0
Provident Imperialism: The De Bunsen Committee and British Language of Indirect Control over the Ottoman Empire0
Notes on Contributors0
The Coloniser Colonised: Legacies of Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain0
‘Saviour’ of the Empire: Jan Smuts’s Conceptualisation of the British Commonwealth of Nations0
Drinking for Development: Transformation of the Beer Hall System in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe0
Covert Colonialism: governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-970
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture0
The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–19020
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park0
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-19410
Engendering Empire: The British Women’s Services in Egypt & Palestine, 1940–19450
Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–19390
Rural Healthcare in Colonial Bengal: The Role, Responsibilities, and Restraints of Union Boards, 1920s–1930s0
Revisiting Approaches to British Imperialism0
Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–19590
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
‘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
Libels, Licenses, Liberties: Conceptualising Freedom of Speech in Colonial and Postcolonial India0
The Dum-Dum Controversy: Rifle Ammunition in British Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
A Nordic Colonial Career Across Borders: Hjalmar Björling in the Dutch East Indies and China0
Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–18380
Colonial Tug-of-War: Shifting Narratives and Desirability of Indian Minorities in Burma and Indochina0
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism0
Museums and the Spoils of Empire: From the Benin Bronzes to Those Marbles Again0
Contesting the Royal Prerogative of Mercy: The Queen’s Pardons and the 1968 Constitutional Crisis over the Death Penalty in Rhodesia0
‘”A Damnable Blaze”: John Loader Maffey, the North-West Frontier and the Abduction of Mollie Ellis, 1919 – 1923’0
Decolonising the ‘Long Boom’: New Histories of the Global South, 1945–19900
Imperial Crime and Punishment: Approaches from Historical Criminology, by0
Governing Over Distance: Delegating Trust and Dealing with Disorder in the Early East India Company Trade0
‘Slow death in India against quick death in Pakistan … ’: Indian Christian Politics During the Punjab Partition0
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–19600
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States0
‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–550
Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal0
Introduction: Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts0
The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana0
White Australia’s Student Exception: Asians and the Selective Logic of Immigration Restriction0
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