This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines scientific discoveries during this p

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and earl

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise o

This volume examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.