Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

Hao Yen-p’ing The Commercial Revolution in Late Imperial China (1986)
J Waley-Cohen ‘China and Western Technology in the late Eighteenth Century’, AHR 98:5 (1993), 1525–44
P Kuhn Rebellion and its Enemies in Late Imperial China (1970); ‘Origins of the Taiping Vision’,
CSSH 19, 3 (1977)
P Cohen History in Three Keys: The Boxers as myth, history and event
M Rankin Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
James Hevia English lessons
Pierre Etienne Will Bureaucracy and famine [OS; mainly c.18 but relevant for c.19]
M Greenberg British Trade and the Opening of China (1951)
J Spence God’s Chinese Son
JK Fairbank Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast 1842–1854 (2 vols, 1953); and EO Reischauer East
Asia: Tradition and Transition
For general reference, see
J Spence In Search of Modern China (1991)
R Bin Wong China Transformed (1997), esp. 1–157
K Pomeranz The Great Divergence
1 3 T H E I M P E R I A L I S M O F F R E E T R A D E
a) Why did Britain and France acquire new colonies c. 1815–1870 while they were both running down the old
colonial system? or
b) What differences were there between the aims and means of British, French and Dutch colonial expansion from
1815–c.1870?
Concepts
J Gallagher & R Robinson ‘Imperialism of Free Trade’, EcHR 6, 1 (1953)
R Moore ‘Imperialism and free trade in India’, EcHR (1964)
DCM Platt Critiques of ‘Imperialism of Free Trade’, EcHR 21 (1968) and 26 (1973)
AG Hopkins ‘Informal Empire in Argentine: an alternative view’, JLAS 26 (1994), 469–84
WR Louis (ed.) Imperialism: the Robinson and Gallagher Controversy [collection of articles, etc.]
B Semmel The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism, esp. chapters 1 and 9
DK Fieldhouse Economics and Empire 1830–1914, Parts1 and 2
General
DS Landes The Unbound Prometheus (1969), esp. chapter 3
T Kemp Industrialization in 19th Century Europe, chapters 1 and 3
R Hyam Britain’s Imperial Century (2nd edn, 1993), chapters 1 and 2
PJ Cain & AG Hopkins ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion’, EcHR 39, 4 (1986) and 40, 1 (1987)
AN Porter ‘‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’ and Empire: The British Experience Since 1750’, JICH 18, 3
(1990)
PJ Cain Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion 1815–1914
R Owen & B Sutcliffe (eds) Studies in Theory of Imperialism (1972), chapters by Platt and Kanya-Forstner
G Ingham ‘British capitalism, empire, etc.’, Social History 20 (1995), 339–48
R Ray ‘Asian Capital in the Age of European Expansion’, MAS (1995)
Cases
D McLean ‘Finance and Informal Empire before the First World War’, EcHR 29 (1976)
R Aldrich Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996)
J Ruedy Modern Algeria (1992), chapters 3 and 4
R Aldrich French Presence in South Pacific 1842–1900 (1990)
CM Andrew & Kanya-Forstner ‘Centre & Periphery in making 2nd Fr Colonial Empire, 1815–1920’, JICH 16, 3 (1988)
M Lynn ‘‘Imperialism of Free Trade’ and the case of W. Africa c.1830–c.1870’, JICH 15, 1 (1986)
R Law (ed.) From the Slave Trade to Legitimate Commerce . . . in 19th-century West Africa (1995)
PD Curtin The Image of Africa (1964), chapter 19
T Keegan Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order (1996), esp. chapters 3–5