Animal Industry in the British Empire.

Red-turbaned Sikh policemen have long been viewed as symbols of the cosmopolitan feature of modern Shanghai. However, the origin of the Sikh police unit in the Shanghai Municipal Police has not been seriously investigated. This article argues that the circulation of police officers, policing knowledge, and information in the British colonial network and the circulation of the idea of taking Hong Kong as the reference point amongst Shanghailanders from the 1850s to the 1880s played important role in the establishment of the Sikh police force in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Furthermore, by highlighting the translocal connections and interactions amongst British colonies and settlements, this study tries to break the metropole-colony binary in imperial history studies.

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David C. Atkinson, The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States

Britain and the World ◽

10.3366/brw.2018.0306 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 264-266

Author(s):

Cornelis Heere

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

British Empire ◽

White Supremacy ◽

The United States ◽

Asian Migration

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Humanitarianism, Human Rights and Biopolitics in the British Empire, 1890–1902

Britain and the World ◽

10.3366/brw.2016.0216 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 96-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anna Clark

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Human Rights ◽

British Empire ◽

Concentration Camps ◽

Boer War ◽

Personal Rights

The 1890s were a key time for debates about imperial humanitarianism and human rights in India and South Africa. This article first argues that claims of humanitarianism can be understood as biopolitics when they involved the management and disciplining of populations. This article examines the historiography that analyses British efforts to contain the Bombay plague in 1897 and the Boer War concentration camps as forms of discipline extending control over colonized subjects. Secondly, human rights language could be used to oppose biopolitical management. While scholars have criticized liberal human rights language for its universalism, this article argues that nineteenth-century liberals did not believe that rights were universal; they had to be earned. It was radical activists who drew on notions of universal rights to oppose imperial intervention and criticize the camps in India and South Africa. These activists included two groups: the Personal Rights Association and the Humanitarian League; and the individuals Josephine Butler, Sol Plaatje, Narayan Meghaji Lokhande, and Bal Gandadhar Tilak. However, these critics also debated amongst themselves how far human rights should extend.

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Thinking About Scots Law

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.1996.1.1.3 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 3-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alan Rodger

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

British Empire ◽

United States Of America ◽

Case Law ◽

The United States ◽

Memorial Lecture ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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Imagining the Sudan in British Film, 1925–53

Journal of British Cinema and Television ◽

10.3366/jbctv.2020.0532 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 334-354

Author(s):

Zach Bates

Keyword(s):

British Empire ◽

Popular Literature ◽

The Political ◽

Complex Picture ◽

The Relationship

Due to its status as a territory under the joint rule of Egypt and Britain, the Sudan occupied an awkward place in the British Empire. Because of this, it has not received much attention from scholars. In theory, it was not a colony, but, in practice, the Sudan was ruled primarily by British administrators and was the site of several developmental schemes, most of which concerned cotton-growing and harnessing the waters of the Nile. It was also the site of popular literature, travelogues and the most well-known of Alexander Korda's empire films. This article focuses on five British films – Cotton Growing in the Sudan (c.1925), Stark Nature (1930), Stampede (1930), The Four Feathers (1939) and They Planted a Stone (1953) – that take the Sudan as their subject. It argues that each of these films shows an evolving and related discourse of the region that embraced several motifs: cooperation as the foundation of the relationship between the Sudanese and the British; Sudanese peoples in conflict with a sometimes hostile landscape and environment that the British could ‘tame’; and the British being in the Sudan in order to improve it and its people before leaving them to self-government. However, some of the films, especially The Four Feathers, subtly questioned and subverted the British presence in the Sudan and engaged with a number of the political questions not overtly mentioned in documentaries. The article, therefore, argues for a nuanced and complex picture of representations of the Sudan in British film from 1925 to 1953.

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