Ronald Hyam
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 134114 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronald Hyam |
| NOMBRES | Ronald |
| APELLIDO | Hyam |
| FIRMA | HYAM R |
| AFILIACIONES | Northeast Catholic College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 220 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Empire and sexuality
This book tries to show how sexual attitudes and activities influenced the lives of the imperial elite as well as the subjects of empire. It begins with an examination of the nature of sexuality and of its influence on individuals. The book argues that sexual dynamics crucially underpinned the whole operation of British empire and Victorian expansion. Sexual needs can be imperative, and people will go to extraordinary lengths to satisfy them. The…
Africa and the Labour Government, 1945–1951
The Labour government continued to try to tempt Egypt into some sort of equal partnership in a new Middle East defence scheme, but negotiations remained deadlocked. A conference of African governors in November 1947 chewed over the implications of the new local government strategy, not always amicably, together with most other aspects of African policy. The Cabinet was especially concerned to ensure a smooth transfer of administrative responsibil…
Empire and Sexuality
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St John's College Cambridge
Understanding the British Empire
Understanding the British Empire draws on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field. Essays cover six key themes: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of empire, religion and ethics, imperial bureaucracy, the contribution of political leaders, the significance of sexuality, and the shaping of imperial historiography. A major new introductory chapter draws together the wid…
Lion and the Springbok
Britain's Declining Empire
An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on the experience of decolonization across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He describes the dysfunctional policies of an imperial system coping with postwar, interwar and wartime crises from 1918 to 19…
The Lion and the Springbok
Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers £45.00, US$60.00, ISBN 0 52182 453 2). 2003, 379 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
The Lion and the Springbok
The Lion and the Springbok
The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 379. $60.00. Ronald Hyam is emeritus reader in imperial history, University of Cambridge. Peter Henshaw studied under Hyam at Cambridge and is now a research professor in history at the University of Western Ontario. They have both been actively involved in the massive Documents at the End…
The Lion and the Springbok
The Lion and the Springbok presents an account of the dynamics and divergences of the 'uneasy special relationship' of Britain and South Africa. From the bruising experience of the South African War (1899–1902) to South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, the authors chart this relationship in all its political, economic, cultural and geostrategic aspects. All the major disputes are discussed including the struggle for the High Com…
The Dynamics of Empire and Expansion
There used to be a theory that territories came under the British flag as a result of the export of surplus capital. It would be much truer to say that the driving force behind empire-building was rather the export of surplus energy: that the expansion of Britain was the overspill of a restless people. The explorer Sir Samuel Baker wrote in 1855:1 Englishmen& are naturally endowed with a spirit of adventure. There is in the hearts of all a germ o…
Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914
The undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire. The dy
The study of imperial and commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881–1981
South Africa, Cambridge, and Commonwealth history
Fifty years after the death of Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and for the last two years of his life Chancellor of Cambridge University, Commonwealth studies in general and history in particular is thriving in the university. The Smuts Memorial Fund for Commonwealth Studies, inaugurated in 1952, has been the backbone of the university's activities through its support for a broad range of activities. But it is accepted that despite his …
The British Empire in the Edwardian Era
This chapter places the British Empire in the spirit of the times of the Edwardian era. The Dominions seemed unlikely to give as much help as Britain would have wished. The Empire came to an end, not from any failure of metropolitan will or from white colonial machinations, still less any physical degeneration of the British race. International pressures contributed to the eventual decolonization, but these were not quite those anticipated by the…
Bureaucracy and ‘Trusteeship’ in the Colonial Empire
This chapter looks at the idea of trusteeship and bureaucracy in the Colonial Empire. One aspect of bureaucracy which became increasingly central as the 20th century progressed was interdepartmental relations. In the early days, it had not much troubled the Colonial Office what other government departments thought about the Empire. The doctrines of the Colonial Office and its principal contributions to policy-making are explored. Its doctrines we…
The primacy of geopolitics
The parting of the ways
(1998). The parting of the ways: Britain and South Africa's departure from the commonwealth, 1951–61. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 26, Managing The Business of Empire, pp. 157-175
Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914
Provides a comprehensive chronological narrative of the history of the British Empire between 1815 and 1914, together with a more theoretical and reflective concluding chapter, thus giving an overview
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. HYAM R. HYAM Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 538–539, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.538 Published: 01 April 1993
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access R. HYAM R. HYAM Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 267-b–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.267-b Published: 01 January 1992
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access R. HYAM R. HYAM Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 1082-b–1083, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.1082-b Published: 01 October 1992
Empire and Sexuality
Britain's Declining Empire
An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on the experience of decolonization across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He describes the dysfunctional policies of an imperial system coping with postwar, interwar and wartime crises from 1918 to 19…
The Geopolitical Origins of the Central African Federation
The Central African Federation (1953–63) was the most controversial large-scale imperial exercise in constructive state-building ever undertaken by the British government. It appears now as a quite extraordinary mistake, an aberration of history (‘like the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem’), a deviation from the inevitable historical trend of decolonization. Paradoxically, one of its principal architects, Andrew Cohen (head of the African department…
The Failure of South African Expansion 1908–1948
The Lion and the Springbok
Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers £45.00, US$60.00, ISBN 0 52182 453 2). 2003, 379 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
Empire and sexual opportunity
Concubinage and the Colonial Service
The Partition of Africa
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Africa and the Labour government, 1945–1951
[This chapter – summarising some intensive research – occupies a central position among my papers, both by intention and in its effect. Written in homage to my principal mentor in imperial history, ‘Robbie’ Robinson, it played an unexpected but crucial role leading to my appointment with the British Documents on the End of Empire Project, commissioned to edit the large four-part volume on The Labour government and the end of empire, 1945–1951 (19…
The Political Consequences of Seretse Khama
Ruth Williams was not a typist. She was apt to be put out when the newspapers called her that. In fact she was a secretary, a confidential clerk, with a firm of Lloyds' underwriters in London. On 30 September 1948, at a registry office in Kensington, she married Seretse Khama, heir to the chieftaincy of the Bangwato in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. No-one knew whether the Bangwato would accept a white consort. British newspapers ran features hea…
British Imperial Expansion in the Late Eighteenth Century
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The Lion and the Springbok
The primacy of geopolitics
The parting of the ways
(1998). The parting of the ways: Britain and South Africa's departure from the commonwealth, 1951–61. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 26, Managing The Business of Empire, pp. 157-175
Imperialism and sexual exploitation’
(1988). ‘Imperialism and sexual exploitation’: A reply. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 90-98
The Colonial Office Mind 1900–1914
V. African Interests and the South Africa Act, 1908–1910
It has often been argued that British ministers in the years leading up to the Union of South Africa in 1910 were so obsessed with the principle of white self-government that they forgot their obligations to the African majority. 1 The result, it is alleged, was that African interests in general were sacrificed on the altar of Anglo-Afrikaner reconciliation, and in particular betrayed in the South Africa Act of 1909. If there is a partial excepti…
South Africa, Cambridge, and Commonwealth history
Fifty years after the death of Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and for the last two years of his life Chancellor of Cambridge University, Commonwealth studies in general and history in particular is thriving in the university. The Smuts Memorial Fund for Commonwealth Studies, inaugurated in 1952, has been the backbone of the university's activities through its support for a broad range of activities. But it is accepted that despite his …
Reappraisals in British Imperial History
V. Smuts and the Decision of the Liberal Government to grant Responsible Government to the Transvaal, January and February 1906
On 31 March 1905 the Unionist Government issued Letters Patent granting to the Transvaal a representative constitution, known almost at once, and to history, as the Lyttelton Constitution. This constitution never came into force; it was abrogated in February 1906 by the new Liberal Government, who decided, at a dramatic Cabinet meeting on 8 February, to grant responsible government instead. Until the opening of the government and private archives…
The study of imperial and commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881–1981
The Partition of Africa
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V. Smuts and the Decision of the Liberal Government to grant Responsible Government to the Transvaal, January and February 1906
On 31 March 1905 the Unionist Government issued Letters Patent granting to the Transvaal a representative constitution, known almost at once, and to history, as the Lyttelton Constitution. This constitution never came into force; it was abrogated in February 1906 by the new Liberal Government, who decided, at a dramatic Cabinet meeting on 8 February, to grant responsible government instead. Until the opening of the government and private archives…
British Imperial Expansion in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Towards the Definition of a Native Policy for British Africa
‘It is a curious coincidence’, Elgin wrote to Churchill on 25 September 1907, ‘that this question of the treatment of Natives is coming to the front everywhere in Africa.’ He had before him at that moment the crisis in Zululand, the despatches from the Transvaal on native administration, a letter from Girouard about education and nationalism in Northern Nigeria. A little earlier, he had been confronted with a racial incident in Nairobi, and the p…
The Development of Dependencies
It is often assumed or implied that the Liberal government neglected the empire outside South Africa, and that once the partition had taken place, African possessions were forgotten.I But the years after 1905 saw, as Milner recognised, 2 a remarkable growth in understanding the value and possibilities of tropical territories, a strengthening of the sense of duty towards them, and a ‘great change’ toward a progressive policy which regarded them as…
Ceylon
With the possible exception of the West Indies under Chamberlain, from the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 until the fall of the Unionist government in 1905, South Africa nearly monopolised government attentions. The decline, or nonassertion, of the imperial factor may be widely observed in many parts of the world. Among the Liberals, Churchill represented a school of thought which regarded colonial governments, both Crown Colonies and responsib…
West and East Africa
In South Africa the Liberals thought that an imperial problem of long standing had been profoundly aggravated by the Unionist government. But they were also disturbed by the multiplication elsewhere in Africa of entirely new formal responsibilities which resulted from the partition of Africa in the previous twenty years. The colonial office by 1905 had acquired responsibility for Northern and Southern Nigeria, Nyasaland, Uganda, Kenya and Somalil…
Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office 1905-1908
Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office 1905–1908
Winston Churchill Before 1914
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V. African Interests and the South Africa Act, 1908–1910
It has often been argued that British ministers in the years leading up to the Union of South Africa in 1910 were so obsessed with the principle of white self-government that they forgot their obligations to the African majority. 1 The result, it is alleged, was that African interests in general were sacrificed on the altar of Anglo-Afrikaner reconciliation, and in particular betrayed in the South Africa Act of 1909. If there is a partial excepti…
The High Commission Territories, IV
H ertzog’s government fell at the outbreak of the Second World War on the issue of South Africa’s neutrality. Smuts broke with the Nationalists, formed a government on 5 September 1939 and declared war. Col. Deneys Reitz, the new minister for native affairs (and deputy prime minister 1939–42), agreed with the high commissioner that on account of the war the question of transfer should be allowed to remain in abeyance and consequently that the Mem…
Failure in Southern Rhodesia
Although barely one-fifth of white Rhodesians spoke Afrikaans as their native tongue, the incorporation of Southern Rhodesia in the Union seemed at least as logical as it had been for Natal. Apart from a similarity to South Africa in Rhodesia’s climate and circumstances, the franchise, civil service and law were all inherited from Cape Colony. In May 1909 the Legislative Council debated closer union. Everyone was in favour of Union in principle, …
Prologue
‘I am not sure’, declared General Jan Smuts in 1917, ‘... whether in the distant future the South Africa Act will not be remembered as much for its appendix as for its principal contents.’1 This book is in part an exploration of one possible implication in that forecast. The Union of South Africa established in 1910 was in effect a provisional one, bringing together Cape Colony, the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Natal, and the Schedule app…
Epilogue
W ith the fall of Smuts from power in 1948 — and great was the fall thereof — the failure of South Africa’s formal expansion into the High Commission Territories was final in the sense that no British government thereafter would lift a finger to further it. In Britain Labour gave way to Conservative in 1951, but it made no difference. Agreement about the transfer question, declared prime minister Winston Churchill, was so widespread that there wa…
The High Commission Territories, III
By the time discussions were renewed in 1932, the situation had changed in several ways. The office of governor-general of the Union was separated from that of high commissioner for the Territories as from January 1931, to the lively satisfaction of the Africans. Their delight in having an officer no longer connected with the Union government is indicative of their attitude to the latter. The high commissioner for the first four years of the new …
The High Commission Territories, II
G eneral J. B. M. Hertzog was prime minister and minister of Native Affairs from 1924 to 1929 in a Pact Government which joined his National Party with the Labour Party. Unlike his predecessors Botha and Smuts, Hertzog enjoyed no sort of admiration in London. British politicians deeply appreciated Botha, who was in many ways a sort of Sir Edward Grey on horseback, with all his ‘old world courtesy’, chivalry and common sense, honesty, practical st…
The High Commission Territories, I
The attractiveness of the High Commission Territories to land-hungry white South Africans was obvious. Selborne forecast that many of them would deliberately and as a matter of policy seek to break them up and distribute African lands among European farmers: 'It will become a point of honour to every South African, Briton or Boer, to get control over them'. Already in 1907 they were calling the Territories a menace.1 With only a few exceptions, e…
Greater South Africa— ‘Cape Town to the Equator’?
The vision of a Greater South Africa was certainly not limited to Southern Rhodesia and the three High Commission Territories, although these were obvious and concrete objectives. Inheriting expansionist concepts of security and opportunity from local heroes as well as from officers of the British government — from Kruger and Rhodes as from Milner and Selborne—, the Union from the beginning had designs on German South-West Africa, and took up the…
Failure of South African Expansion 1908-1948
The Failure of South African Expansion 1908–1948
The Diminishing Post-Edwardians, or Private Lives and Public Process
Are We Any Nearer an African History of South Africa
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The Failure of South African Expansion, 1908-1948
Recent Writing on Southern Africa
Journal Article RECENT WRITING ON SOUTHERN AFRICA Get access A Grand Illusion: the failure of imperial policy in the Transvaal Colony during the period of reconstruction, 1900–05, by Donald Denoon. Longman, 1973. 275pp. Bibliography, index. £3.50. R. HYAM R. HYAM Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 293, October 1974, Pages 476–477, https://doi.org/10…
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