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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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The Household Reckoning: Farming Families and the Female Fieldworker in Late Colonial Borneo8
The World Crafts Council and Decolonisation: India and Australia, 1960s-1980s6
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire5
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022)5
Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine4
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–19034
Fleet-footed Performers at the Edges of Colonial Law: Jack Johnson, Maud Allan and the Struggles of Cinema Censorship in British India3
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
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide3
Himalayan Mountaineering, Imperial Masculinity and Altitude Records Before Everest3
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning3
Contested Liabilities: Financing Trunk Air Route Facilities in British Colonial Africa, 1945–19512
End of Empire and the Bomb: Britain, Malaya and Nuclear Weapons, 1956–572
From Neglect to Compromise: The McMahon Line and the Dilemmas of British Policy towards Tibet, 1914–19472
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire2
British Dominions and the Deterioration of London–Tokyo Relations in the Summer of 19402
History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives2
The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–18362
Keeping Britain ‘in the Fore’: The Establishment of the British Council in South Africa and Its Contribution to the 1960 Union Festival2
Nordic Connections: Norwegian and Swedish Missionaries in Changsha in the 1920s2
The Causes of the Second Opium War and the Arrow Incident2
The ILO and the Political Economy of Labour Policy Making in Nigeria, 1930–19602
Containment and Engagement: Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand’s Cold War Relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1980s2
‘The Veil of Mystery:’ Imperial Intelligence in the Arabian Peninsula2
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism1
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances1
Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–19601
Genocide in Gaza and the End of Settler Colonialism1
Creating the Peasant as Other: Self-colonisation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union1
Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston1
The Tribulations of the Fashoda Complex Theory: Origins, Apex and Obsolescence1
Interracial Sex as Taboo: The New Imperialism, Christian Victorian Values, Nationalism, and the Legacies of Intimacy in the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1861–19141
Forced Villagisation in the Global South: Reading Post-war Rural ‘Development’ Through the Lens of Wartime Villagisation in Africa (1950–1980)1
‘Britain’s Wars are our Wars’: The Politics and Economics of Southern Rhodesia’s Support for Britain During the Second World War, 1939–19451
Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880: Decarbonising Imperial History1
Empire-builders: Interactions between Convicts and Enslaved, Free, and Military Workers in Bermuda’s Dockyards, 1824–18381
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World1
Police, Processions, and Pacification: The Canboulay and Hosay Riots in 1880s Trinidad1
The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission1
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
Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada’s Constitutional Act of 17911
Logistics of the First Anglo-Burma War, 1824–18261
Colonialism and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Addressing the Legacy of Injustice1
Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean1
Farewell to Tensions for Post-independence Algerian and Nigerian Populations: ‘Hybrid Affirmation’ as a Postcolonial Proposition1
Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–641
Sailing for Crown and Curiosity: Prince Alfred’s Mediterranean Voyage1
Multicultural Britain: A People’s History1
Performing Independence in Puducherry: Commemorative Public Holidays and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Former French India1
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings1
Interrogating Orientalism: Hindu Festivals and Travellers’ Tales in the Colonial Indian Ocean1
Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–601
The ‘Native Question’ in Australia Exploring the Anglo-Australian Humanitarian Response, 1904–19391
AI Empire: The Rise of Technocolonialism1
How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?1
Shades of White: African Climate and Jewish European Bodies, 1903–19051
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters0
‘The Straw that Broke the Back’, New Zealand and Britain’s Referendum on European Community Membership, 19750
Practical Christianity in Practice: Chinese Youth Culture and the Scouting Movement as Seen by British Missionaries at the Griffith John College, Hankou, 1915–19250
‘Isolated British Europeans’: How EEC Membership Helped the Gibraltarians Secure British Citizenship, 1962–19810
Bringing Murderers to Justice in Late Colonial Burma0
A Nordic Colonial Career Across Borders: Hjalmar Björling in the Dutch East Indies and China0
(Re-)negotiating Masculinities in the Kampoeng : Medical Mercenaries and the Aceh War, c. 1880–18900
‘A Brave People United’: Warfare, Race, and the Making of the Martial Sikh0
Concealing Colonial Comparability: British Exceptionalism, Imperial Violence, and the Dynamiting of Cave Refuges in Southern Africa, 1879–18970
‘Saviour’ of the Empire: Jan Smuts’s Conceptualisation of the British Commonwealth of Nations0
Provident Imperialism: The De Bunsen Committee and British Language of Indirect Control over the Ottoman Empire0
‘Slow death in India against quick death in Pakistan … ’: Indian Christian Politics During the Punjab Partition0
The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–19020
Nasser’s Islamic Propaganda and British Decolonisation Policy in Northern Nigeria0
Imperial Connections between Ireland and India in the Late Eighteenth Century0
Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire0
Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives0
Scouting in Iran Amid Changing Practices of Masculinity and Childhood0
Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–19590
Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–18380
Displacement and Resilience: Scottish Highland Communities in Nova Scotia, 1810–18500
The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–16830
Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean0
Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa0
The Empire as a Social Machine: Robert Wilmot-Horton on Emigration, Population and Capital Accumulation0
‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–18500
‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–550
Reasons for Hope? The UK Social Attitudes Survey and Historical Literacy0
To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914)0
The Origins and Development of Bagpiping in Colonial Hong Kong, 1841–1941: Military Tradition and Civilian Practice0
Missionaries and Mau Mau: The Opportunities of Rehabilitation and the NGO-isation of the Christian Council of Kenya0
A Place in the Empire: Gibraltar Camp in Jamaica and the British Imperial Order, 1940–19470
An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s0
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–19140
‘A High Tory and an American upon my own Principles’: James Boswell, the American Revolution, and Royalist Constitutionalism, 1775–17830
Subjects of Difference: Māori Petitions and the Late-Nineteenth Century Colonial State0
James Flint and the 1759 Petition: The Influence of British Intermediaries on the East India Company's China Trade and Sino-British Encounters0
Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature0
‘Abroad Was Where It all Happened’: Inter-war and Post-war Sponsored Migration to the Commonwealth0
On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester0
The Doctrine of Lapse in Nagpur: Decision-Making at the Periphery0
Trans-Tasman Liaison: Australasian Defence Co-ordination and the New Zealand Military Liaison Offices in Australia, 1932–480
Far From Ypres: Colonial Violence and the Shadow of the Great War in Turkana0
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
Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine0
Notes on Contributors0
Baron de Thierry's British Emigration Schemes in Transimperial Context: New Evidence about Proposals to Settle New Zealand in the 1820s0
Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India0
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–19600
Writing Back to Empire: Anticolonial Petitioning and Decolonisation in Postwar British West Africa, 1945–19600
Introduction: Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts0
Revisiting Approaches to British Imperialism0
Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 19110
Engendering Empire: The British Women’s Services in Egypt & Palestine, 1940–19450
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century0
Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was0
The Social Transactional Exchange in the Development of Colonial Education in Baringo, Kenya, 1908–19470
Reappraising Donald Cameron's 1934 Native Administration Reforms in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria0
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?0
The Bison in the Room: Hunting, Settler Colonialism and Gender Performance on the American Frontier, 1865–18950
The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History0
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism0
‘British Corporate Imperialism and Sovereignty in Interwar Greece: The Power and Traction Question’0
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 20200
Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India0
British Power in the Mediterranean: Sea Protests and Notarial Practice in Nineteenth-century Malta0
Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against ‘Perpetrator and ‘Victim’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
Late Colonial Unreason0
The Remains of the Colonial Postcard Days: How to Come to Terms with the Imperial Gaze0
The Coloniser Colonised: Legacies of Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain0
Empires. A Historical and Political Sociology0
Drinking for Development: Transformation of the Beer Hall System in Late Colonial Bulawayo, Zimbabwe0
Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation0
A Poorly Invented Tradition?La Semaine coloniale française 1927–1939in its Transnational Context0
Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–19600
Trump and the Commonwealth0
The Unexpected Friend: Anglo-Rwandan Relations from the Civil War to the Commonwealth (1990–2009)0
Persuasive Forests for Maritime Britain: Canada and Britain’s Maritime Power from the War of the Spanish Succession to the Seven Years’ War0
Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower0
Reasonable Parties: Empire and Ethnonationalism in Burma and Malaya, 1945–19480
‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics0
Ethical Capitalism?0
Assessing Resistance in Morocco: Comparative European Perceptions During the Early Protectorate (1912–1936)0
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth0
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–19570
Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong0
Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums0
Notes on Contributors0
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
Rural Healthcare in Colonial Bengal: The Role, Responsibilities, and Restraints of Union Boards, 1920s–1930s0
He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore0
Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa0
The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–19470
Inter-imperial ‘45: War, Geopolitics, and the Entanglements of Rebellion, 1745–17630
Expert Equestrians: How the Game of Polo Forged Masculinities in British India and the British Metropole, 1862–19140
Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–19390
Libels, Licenses, Liberties: Conceptualising Freedom of Speech in Colonial and Postcolonial India0
Missing the Bolt from the Blue: British Intelligence and the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 19190
British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India0
Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)0
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
The Dum-Dum Controversy: Rifle Ammunition in British Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making0
Beyond the Christian Question: Henry Bulwer and the Ottoman Reform (1858–1865)0
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu: Railways and Shifting Meanings of Travel in Late Colonial India0
An Exhausted Colonial Botanist: Charles Ford and Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, 1871–19020
‘Amenable to Civil Power’: The Influence of the Periphery on British Policy on New Zealand, 1831 to 18370
Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home0
Latin American World Model: A Third-World Voice to Face Limits to Growth0
‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables0
Revolution in Populism: Anticolonial Developmentalism in Brazil’s Populist Republic0
Brexit and the ‘Imperial Factor’: A longue durée Approach to British Exceptionalism0
Between Paternal Power and Prerogative: The Reformatory Origins of Protection in the British Empire (1788–1888)0
An Alternative Macanese Public Sphere: Discussing Portuguese Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong0
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
Anglo-Krio Relations: A Study of a Disadvantaged Community in a Colonial Setting, 1895–19220
‘Recorded Facts’ and ‘Different Stories’: A Response to Catharine Titi0
‘Making Manly Men’: Manufacturing Boyhood in the Great Outdoors and the Boy Scout Movement in British Malaya (1910–1966)0
Governing Over Distance: Delegating Trust and Dealing with Disorder in the Early East India Company Trade0
Kings of Quinine: The Pharmakina Company and West German Pharmaceutical Production in Postcolonial Zaire During the Long Boom0
The Elusive Australian Republic: A Short History of the Debate0
Emigration, War and Reconstruction: Imagining the International Dispersal of Britain in the 1940s0
‘Botha Cake’ and ‘Belgian Onion Soup:’ Gendered Patriotism Through Three South African, First World War, Community Cookbooks0
‘Pen Pals – the Significance of the Release of the “Palace Letters” in Australia’0
‘Their Flag has Failed Them’ – Moral Panic and the Imagined Survivors of the SS Douglas Mawson0
‘Merchant Princes and Ocean Leviathans:’ the Uneven Development of the Overseas Mail, 1837–18800
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World0
Chanak and the Memory of Gallipoli: A British Crisis of Cultural Demobilisation0
Violence, Resilience and the ‘Coolie’ Identity: Life and Survival on Ships to the Caribbean, 1834–19170
Debating Racial Hierarchy and the Exclusion of Māori from the 1928 All Blacks Rugby Tour to South Africa0
Imagining an Imperial Future: Mountaineering and Nostalgia on British India’s Himalayan Frontier, 1927–19400
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-19410
Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect0
Covert Colonialism: governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-970
The Parthenon Marbles: Imperialism and Diasporic Memory0
Being Economical with the Truth: Dutch Public Claims and Hidden Agendas about Papuan Self-Determination and the Economic Exploitation of Netherlands New Guinea0
Greek Islander Migration to Australian since the 1950s: (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home0
Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment0
‘We Went Bravely On … ’: The Theatre and Spectacle of Everyday Life in British Written Representations of Colonial South Asia0
From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’: Africa and the Global Radical-Right in the Geographical Imagination of UDI-Era Rhodesian Propaganda, 1962–19700
Spoils of War among the Art Treasures: Exhibiting Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain0
Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945)0
‘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
The British Labour Movement and the Strikes in Hong Kong 1925/6 and Trinidad 1937: Worlds Apart and Worlds Together0
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism0
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism0
Abolitionist Currents Converging on the Windward Coast: Land Negotiations in 1821 for a U.S. Colony in West Africa0
‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey0
Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland0
Reanalysing Ireland’s Exit from the Commonwealth 1948–49: The Brexit Isles’ Alter Ego?0
Perception and ‘Salvation Government’ in 1940s Lagos Petitions0
‘Conquest’ Zomia: The British Raj and the Panthay Intermediaries in the Chin-Lushai Hills0
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture0
The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence0
Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–19320
Taking Notes or Precedents? Legal Practice in Colonial India0
A Tepid Cup of Tea: Gender and the Household Economy in Northeast Indian Plantations0
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
Decolonising the ‘Long Boom’: New Histories of the Global South, 1945–19900
Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–19180
‘Scientific Salvation’ and Development: Britain, South Africa and the African Regional Scientific Conference, October 19490
‘Experts’, Settlers and Africans: The Production of Local Agricultural and Veterinary Knowledge in Southern Rhodesia (1897–1914)0
If One is A Soldier of Our Great Empire There Should Be No Discrimination: Service and Mortality in Britain’s East African Colonial Military0
Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus: Rupert Gunnis, the ‘Uncrowned King’, and his Sudden Downfall0
‘The Angolan Experiment’: Colonial and Post-Independence Rural Social Engineering, 1960s-1980s0
Colonial Cyprus: A Cultural History0
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law0
Government and Politics in the Gambia, 1816–18660
Unmasking the Colonial Past: Memory, Narrative, and Legacy0
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism0
On Accumulation and Empire0
Small Wars and Pacification in the British Empire: A Case Study of Lushai Hills, 1850–19000
The India-Pakistan Crisis of 2025: Retrospect and Prospect0
Central Banking on Independence: The Birth of the National Bank of Libya0
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)0
‘A Somewhat Lethargic Approach’: Britain and the Grenada Crisis, 19830
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park0
Imperial Reach Through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa0
Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea0
‘”A Damnable Blaze”: John Loader Maffey, the North-West Frontier and the Abduction of Mollie Ellis, 1919 – 1923’0
Engraved Stories of Empire: An Examination of Selected Images from the Missionary Register , 1813–18550
Colonial Fragility: British Embarrassment and the So-called ‘Migrated Archives’0
Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives0
EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?0
Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia0
Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan0
Notes on Contributors0
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ‘Third Reich’0
The Value of Words – Wampum in Iroquois Diplomatic Petitions of the Removal Era0
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