Anthony Lester
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 114035 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anthony Lester |
| PRENOMES | Anthony |
| SOBRENOME | Lester |
| ASSINATURA | LESTER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2703-6383 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 419 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1962 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire
Inquiring into Empire
Reasons for Hope? The UK Social Attitudes Survey and Historical Literacy
Reparation or disavowal? The morals and the politics of slavery and racism
Our Island Stories
This review article sets Corinne Fowler's new book in the context of the political struggle over Britain's colonial past, often referred to as a ‘culture war’. It identifies this struggle specifically as a right wing backlash against Black Lives Matter, notes how Fowler has been targeted by its protagonists, and examines how she has responded with this a book intended to inform, ameliorate and encourage enjoyment of contested British landscapes
Commentary
Fighting Retreat
The British Empire in the Culture War
The British Empire has been politicised to an extent that many of us could never have predicted just a few years ago. The colonial past features especially prominently in the right wing-oriented press, where attempts to inform the public about the realities of colonialism are fiercely resisted in a ‘culture war’ against those labelled as ‘woke’. This culture war is sponsored in part by elements within the post-Brexit Conservative government and i…
Ruling the World
Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Carib…
J ane L ydon . Imperial Emotions
Jane Lydon’s slim volume, Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire, focuses on the historical expression and manipulation of sympathy, pity, fellow feeling, and compassion, moving back and forth between Britain and the Australian colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She casts these emotions as collectively shaped and steered within social assemblages rather than individualized. This enables her to identi…
The Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 1832-8
Analysing a comprehensive shift in the governance of the British Empire in the mid 1830s, this article introduces the context for the following three articles in the Feature, 'Legacies of Slave Ownership'. This shift included the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, upon which these articles concentrate, but also the restructuring of the East India Company. A reformed British parliament introduced transitions in the western and eastern halves o…
Once Within Borders
The centre of the muniment’
Reforming Everywhere and All at Once
In late 1837 and early 1838 the British imperial government was preparing for an empire-wide transition from bonded to nominally free labor. This article builds upon recent scholarship that promotes a holistic, global approach to this transition, by narrowing the temporal frame and expanding the spatial. We emphasize interconnectivity and simultaneity rather than chronological succession, and we analyze the governance, rather than the experience,…
Tracey Banivanua Mar, 1974–2017
Tracey Banivanua Mar, a Melburnian of Fijian (Lauan), Chinese and British descent and Associate Professor at La Trobe University, was a pioneering and profoundly influential historian. Her untimely
Settler colonialism, George Grey and the politics of ethnography
This article suggests that the spaces of British settler colonialism and metropolitan science were interconnected, underexamined, grounds upon which both ethnography and colonial governance developed. Focusing on the governmental and ethnographic activities of Sir George Grey during the mid-19th century it argues that the origins of ethnography and the specifically humanitarian governance of spaces invaded by settlers were co-constituted. Althoug…
Introduction
In line with the multi-disciplinary tenor of this volume, my aim in this Introduction is to weave between historiographical traditions that are often kept apart, focusing on the understandings that are generated when they are brought together. Imperial history has a longer and, some would say, more venerable tradition than environmental history, but this volume suggests that more explicit attention to their interpenetration might be worthwhile. 1…
Entanglements of Empire
In this rich and multifaceted book, Tony Ballantyne draws together many of his preoccupations over the last decade or so. In particular he articulates work on the webs of empire for which he is wel
Roundtable
In an age when both the traditional book form and the world that the British Empire made are arguably in crisis, it is remarkable that big books on British imperialism abound. Contributors to this roundtable assess scale and genre as well as content in their discussion of the claims and impact of John Darwin's tome, The Empire Project . John Darwin's response is also included
Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism
The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that
The Last Man
The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide
Introduction
This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'. These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civi…
Race and law
Indigenous communities and settler colonialism
"The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the nineteenth century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this world meant for Indigenous communities facing invasion by those emigrants. While settlers in the British Empire and the USA have been seen as participants in newly globalized networks, the Indigenous peoples upon whose lands they settled tend to be seen as rooted, localized, and peripheral to the stor…
Imperial Circuits and Networks
How to write about the many, diverse places that constituted the British Empire in the same text; how to conceive of both the differences and the connections between Britain and its various colonies? These have been perennial problems for imperial historians. This article begins by examining the concept of 'core' and 'periphery', and the various ways that it has been employed within the tradition of British imperial history. It then turns to conc…
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire Get access Alan Lester Alan Lester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 24-48, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.24 Published: 01 January 2002
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and develop…
Humanitarianism and Empire
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. We suggest that, while recent work such as Michael Barnett's Empire of Humanity has begun to explore the history of western humanitarianism, academic researchers can do more to address the intricate framework of relations between humanitarianism and empire, and that the history of humanitarianism can usefull…
Obtaining the 'Due Observance of Justice
Within the context of contemporary discussion over geography and developmental ethics, this paper examines part of the genealogy of a modern British sense of responsibility for the plight of distant strangers. The frame of reference for this sense, known as humanitarianism, was first cast overseas through debates over the slave trade in the late 18th century, and its remit was further extended as a result of the contested processes of colonial se…
Geographies of colonial philanthropy
Through an examination of the material and imaginative geographies of colonial philanthropy in parts of the British Empire from the late eighteenth century to the midnineteenth century, this paper advocates a more nuanced conception of the heterogeneity of colonial discourse. At the same time, it elaborates a networked conceptualization of empire. Particular attention is paid to the moralities of closeness, distance and connection, the spatial po…
Reformulating Identities
This paper examines the formation of a colonial identity among settlers from the British Isles who were relocated to the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in 1820. It suggests that material aspirations united certain of the settlers in a political programme, and thus began the erosion of imported class (and other) divisions. However, it argues that their establishment as a capitalist colonial class is an insufficient explanation for their const…
Otherness’ and the frontiers of empire
Humanism, race and the colonial frontier
Beginning with an engagement with Kay Anderson’s recent post‐humanist approach, I propose an alternative explanation for the rise of an innatist discourse of race around the mid‐nineteenth century. I argue that the shift to innatist ideas of racial difference has to be seen as a matter of specific geographies of political contestation and trans‐imperial mobilisation emerging in the spatial assemblages of colonial frontier zones during the early n…
Settler colonialism, George Grey and the politics of ethnography
This article suggests that the spaces of British settler colonialism and metropolitan science were interconnected, underexamined, grounds upon which both ethnography and colonial governance developed. Focusing on the governmental and ethnographic activities of Sir George Grey during the mid-19th century it argues that the origins of ethnography and the specifically humanitarian governance of spaces invaded by settlers were co-constituted. Althoug…
British India on trial’
Networks of Empire
Journal Article Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company Get access Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company, by Kerry Ward (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2009; pp. xv + 340. £45). Alan Lester Alan Lester University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 517, December 2010, Pages 1538–1540, https://doi…
The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide
Imperial Networks
Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. It reveals how British colonialism in the Eastern Cape region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies. It examines: * the origins and development of the three interacting discourses of colonialism - official, humanitarian and settler* the contests, compromises and interplay between these …
The centre of the muniment’
Personifying Colonial Governance
During the early nineteenth century, a number of seemingly antithetical developments shaped the British Empire and the wider world, among them evangelical humanism, antislavery and emancipation, the invasion of indigenous peoples’ lands by waves of British settlers, the rapid expansion of the settler colonies, and the consolidation of British rule and designs for the redevelopment of India. Against this backdrop, this article draws attention to s…
Masculinity, ‘race’, and family in the colonies
Much of British imperial society in the early nineteenth century was characterised by a reformulated sensibility of manliness and family. Integral to this sensibility was the notion of men's responsibility for dependants. However, the story of Charles Wightman Sievwright, appointed as Assistant Protector of Aborigines in colonial New South Wales, serves to demonstrate that a man's duty of care for very different, racialised kinds of dependants co…
Settlers, the State and Colonial Power
Queen Adelaide Province consisted of some 7,000 square miles of Rarabe Xhosa territory annexed by the British Cape colonial government in May 1835 during the Sixth Frontier War. The province was held only until the end of 1836 when it was abandoned under pressure from the imperial government, but it represented the first British attempt to extend direct control over a large body of formerly independent Africans. No such ambitious scheme had ever …
River Pollution in International Law
While the world is experiencing its industrial revolution, demand for the efficient exploitation of global natural resources is making states increasingly interdependent
The margins of order
This paper draws attention to the inconsistent development of segregationist strategies on the eastern Cape frontier during the nineteenth century. It argues that the primary thrust of official segregationist strategy shifted throughout the century in response to Xhosa resistance, the material demands of colonists and competing discourses surrounding ‘the Xhosa’. A periodisation is developed around three broad phases. In the first, the colonial s…
The British Empire in the Culture War
The British Empire has been politicised to an extent that many of us could never have predicted just a few years ago. The colonial past features especially prominently in the right wing-oriented press, where attempts to inform the public about the realities of colonialism are fiercely resisted in a ‘culture war’ against those labelled as ‘woke’. This culture war is sponsored in part by elements within the post-Brexit Conservative government and i…
Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism
The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that
Colonial and postcolonial geographies
Reforming Everywhere and All at Once
In late 1837 and early 1838 the British imperial government was preparing for an empire-wide transition from bonded to nominally free labor. This article builds upon recent scholarship that promotes a holistic, global approach to this transition, by narrowing the temporal frame and expanding the spatial. We emphasize interconnectivity and simultaneity rather than chronological succession, and we analyze the governance, rather than the experience,…
Colonial Networks, Australian Humanitarianism and the History Wars
The 'History Wars' have brought contests among Britons over the colonisation of Aboriginal land and people to the forefront of public consciousness in Australia. These contests, however, were the result of trajectories that criss-crossed British imperial spaces, connecting Australia with other settler colonies and the British metropole. A number of historians and historical geographers have recently employed the notion of the network to highlight…
Bizerta and the Unequal Treaty Theory
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State Succession to Treaties in the Commonwealth
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River Pollution in International Law
While the world is experiencing its industrial revolution, demand for the efficient exploitation of global natural resources is making states increasingly interdependent
State Succession to Treaties in the Commonwealth
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The Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes
Race and Law
Race and Law in Great Britain
Journal Article Lester and Bindman: Race and Law in Great Britain Get access Race and Law in Great Britain. By Lester Anthony and Bindman GeoffreyCambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 491. T.C Hartley T.C Hartley *Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 21, Issue 4, Autumn 1973, Pages 801–803, https://doi.o…
Not on Her Majesty's Service
Anti-discrimination legislation in Great Britain
The margins of order
This paper draws attention to the inconsistent development of segregationist strategies on the eastern Cape frontier during the nineteenth century. It argues that the primary thrust of official segregationist strategy shifted throughout the century in response to Xhosa resistance, the material demands of colonists and competing discourses surrounding ‘the Xhosa’. A periodisation is developed around three broad phases. In the first, the colonial s…
From Colonization to Democracy
This work traces the developments of modern South African society, establishing the geographical and historical context in which adaptation has occurred. The author identifies and explains the most important historical continuities in South Africa, which have done most to shape present society. These include social geography, economic structure and external links and influences. The relationship between capitalism as a mode of production and apar…
Otherness’ and the frontiers of empire
Settlers, the State and Colonial Power
Queen Adelaide Province consisted of some 7,000 square miles of Rarabe Xhosa territory annexed by the British Cape colonial government in May 1835 during the Sixth Frontier War. The province was held only until the end of 1836 when it was abandoned under pressure from the imperial government, but it represented the first British attempt to extend direct control over a large body of formerly independent Africans. No such ambitious scheme had ever …
Reformulating Identities
This paper examines the formation of a colonial identity among settlers from the British Isles who were relocated to the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in 1820. It suggests that material aspirations united certain of the settlers in a political programme, and thus began the erosion of imported class (and other) divisions. However, it argues that their establishment as a capitalist colonial class is an insufficient explanation for their const…
From Colonization to Democracy
From Colonization to Democracy
Global Capitalism, Social Dislocation and Cultural Discourse in South African History
Positioning the Missionary
Colonial Settlers and the Metropole
The ways that British settlers in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, particularly those engaged in the extension of commercial sheep farming, constructed a certain discourse of colonialism during the first half of the 19th century are discussed. It is argued that this discourse was formulated, at least in part, in opposition to that of humanitarians within each colony and in Britain, who challenged settler capitalist practices on the fringe…
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire Get access Alan Lester Alan Lester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 24-48, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.24 Published: 01 January 2002
Obtaining the 'Due Observance of Justice
Within the context of contemporary discussion over geography and developmental ethics, this paper examines part of the genealogy of a modern British sense of responsibility for the plight of distant strangers. The frame of reference for this sense, known as humanitarianism, was first cast overseas through debates over the slave trade in the late 18th century, and its remit was further extended as a result of the contested processes of colonial se…
Introduction
Making native space
Colonial and postcolonial geographies
Introduction
(2003). Introduction: Historical Geographies of Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 595-613
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