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Professor John MacKenzie

Professor Emeritus of Imperial History

Degree: MA, PhD, FRHistS, FRSE


Research Interests

Research Interests:

  • Cultural History of the British Empire
  • Imperial popular culture in Europe
  • Scottish migration and settlement in the British Empire
  • Development of Museums in the British Empire

Publications:

Recent Publications:

  • Scotland and the British Empire (co-edited with T.M. Devine) (2011)
  • European Empires and the People (edited) (2011)
  • 'Scotland and Empire: Ethnicity, Environment and Identity', Northern Scotland, Vol. 1, New series (2010), pp. 12-29
  • 'Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English Worlds? The historiography of a four-nations approach to the history of the British Empire' in Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland (eds.), Race, nation and empire: Making histories 1750 to the present (2010), pp. 133-153
  • Museums and Empire: human cultures, natural history and colonial identities (2009)
  • 'Some Reflections on Aspects of Modernity' in Trevor Harris (ed.), Art, Politics and Society in Britain: Aspects of Modernity and Modernism, 1880-1914 (2009), pp. 1-19
  • 'Scots and Imperial Frontiers', Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 3, 1 (2009), pp. 1-17
  • 'Making Black Scotsmen and Scotswomen?" Scottish Missionaries and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century' in Hilary M. Carey (ed.) Empires of Religion (2008), pp. 113-136
  • '"Comfort" and conviction: a response to Bernard Porter', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36, 4 (2008), pp. 659-668.
  • '"Mutual goodwill and admiration" or "jealous ill-will"? Empire and Popular Culture' in Dominik Geppert and Robert Gerwarth (eds.), Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (2008), pp. 91-114
  • The Scots in South Africa: ethnicity, identity, gender and race (2007)
  • 'Nelson the Hero and Horatio the Lover: Projections of the Myth' in Holger Hoock (ed.), Trafalgar, 1805-2005: History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation, pp. 65-82 (2007)
  • 'The British World and the Complexities of Anglicization: the Scots in Southern Africa in the Nineteenth Century' in Kate Darien Smith et al (eds.), Britishness Abroad, pp. 109-130 (2007)
  • '"To Enlighten South Africa"; the creation of a free press at the Cape in the nineteenth century' in Chandrika Kaul, Media and the British Empire, pp. 20-36 (2006)
  • Peoples, Nations and Cultures: an A-Z of Peoples of the World Past and Present (general editor) (2005)
  • 'Empires of Travel: British Guide Books and Cultural Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries' in John K. Walton (ed.), Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity, and Conflict, pp. 19-38 (2005)

Other

Founding General Editor of 'Studies in Imperialism' series, Manchester University Press.


Associated Keywords: Culture, Emigration, Empire, History, Imperialism, Museums

 

 

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