Faculty Postholders
Dr John Darwin
M.A., D.Phil.
Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth
Research Interests
Theories of Empire since c 1500 The British Empire as an international system 1830-1960 South African, Canadian and New Zealand History Decolonization and the End of Empires
Supervision Interests
As listed under research interests
Selected Publications:
- Britain and Decolonization. (London, 1988)
- The End of the British Empire: the Historical Debate. (Oxford, 1991)
- 'The Central African Emergency, 1959' in Emergencies and Disorders in the European Empires after 1945. (London, 1994)
- 'Gallagher's Empire' in Yet More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain. (New York and London, 2005) pp. 235-250
- 'Was there a Fourth British Empire?' in The British Empire in the 1950s. Retreat or Revival?. (Basingstoke and New York, 2006) pp. 16-31
- 'Britain's Empires' in The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives. (Oxford, 2008) pp. 1-20
- After Tamerlane: the Global History of Empire (Penguin Books 2007) (Winner of the Wolfson Prize in History for 2008).
- The Empire Project: the Rise and Fall of the British World System 1830-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Winner of the Trevor Reese Prize in Imperial and Commonwealth History 2010)
Future Publications:
- 'Settlers and Expatriates' in Overseas Britons.
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