Review: Scotland's Empire

Medicine and empire. Essay review.

The history of public health is emerging as a major concern of contemporary historians of medicine. Of course, we had decades ago histories of public health in the United Kingdom, the home of the nineteenth-century sanitary idea. These were usually reliable accounts of legislative and administrative developments but were not very sensitive to the social, political, economic and cultural context...

Remembering the Persian Empire (Book Review)

Racism, Empire and Sociology

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

The British Empire Exhibition

Regeneration through Empire