Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion : Britain, 1880-1940.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: British Imperial History and Its Antecedents -- Overview -- History and the Imperial Victorians -- 2 Breaking Up the British Empire -- Greater Britain Versus India: Origins, Difference, and Historical Time -- Overexpansion: Seeley Confronts India -- Seeley Versus the Administrators -- Further Limits of the Expansion -- Rethinking Seeley -- Toward Imperial History -- 3 Historical Racism Between Page and Practice, 1880-1900 -- A History Safe for Anglo-Saxons: E. A. Freeman's Racial Constitutionalism -- J. A. Froude and the Settler Heroic -- Settlerism in Late-Victorian Politics: The Strange Convergence of Freeman and Froude -- Subduing the Earth: Racial Discrimination and the Uses of History in the 1880s and 1890s -- The Problem of Greater India -- 4 Institutionalizing a New 'Imperial' in Turn-of-the-Century Britain -- 'If I Live, I Mean to Do You Some Credit Yet': The Late-Victorian Idealist-Imperial Trajectory -- Divided Empire: 'The Starting Point' and Political Ends of Leo Amery -- Imperial Unity Through the Crosshairs of Constitutionalism -- The Rise and Fall of Egerton's Empire -- Toward Rebirth -- 5 Empire in Opposition: The Stakes of History and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism -- 'The Spirit Purified by Misfortune' -- 'But to Business': Tariff Reform and Settler-Imperial History -- Happy Warriors: Edwardian Historical Economists and the Terms of Human Difference -- The Edwardian Crisis: Alternate Histories -- The New Colonial Crisis -- 6 Mobilizing Pasts During and After the Great War -- 'Services Which Only Trained Historians Could Render': Mobilizing 'Facts', 1914-1918 -- Demobilizing Imperial History: Professionalization and Its Consequences -- The Round Table and the Commonwealth of Nations -- 7 The Third British Empire -- Oxford Innovators and the Postwar Horizon.

'The Authentic Armageddon' -- America: Fable and Future -- Nationalism and Postwar Citizenship: From Universal to Local -- 'Equality, of Course, Is at the Root of All the Trouble': Simon and India Test the Third British Empire -- The Decline and Fall of the Third British Empire -- Empire Revised -- 8 Conclusion -- 'Whitewashing' Imperialism -- India, Anti-history, and the 'Whitewashing' of Decolonization -- The Postcolonial Trauma of Imperial History -- Bloodlines -- Works Cited -- Outline placeholder -- Archival Collections -- Primary Printed Sources -- Secondary Printed Sources -- Index.

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