The History of Empire: Cultures, Political Systems and Economies, 1500-2000
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA708
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Bayly, C A, Ireland, India and the Empire, 1780-1914, Royal Historical Society Transactions 10, pp 377-397, Cambridge
- Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
- Edney, Matthew H, Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997
- Fergusson, Niall, The unconscious colossus: Limits of (and alternatives to) American empire, Daedalus 134, pp 18-33, 2005
- Flynn, Dennis; Williamson, Arturo Giraldez, Path dependence, time lags and the birth of globalisation: A critique of O'Rourke and Williamson, in European Review of Economic History 8, pp 81-108, 2004
- The new Cambridge history of India.: 4:3 Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999
- O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G., When did globalization begin?, Cambridge, Mass., 2000
- Pomeranz, Kenneth, The great divergence: China, Europa, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2000
- Rajan, S. Ravi, Modernizing nature: forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950, Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2006
- Stoler, Ann Laura, Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule, Berkeley, University of California Press, c2002
- Washbrook, David A, South India 1770-1840: The Colonial Transition, Modern Asia Studies 38/3, pp 479-516