Welcome to H-Empire, H-Net's interdisciplinary network on colonial and imperial studies!

H-Empire seeks to bring together scholars and others interested in sharing resources, research and questions concerning the origin, development, working and decline of empires, rather broadly defined across academic disciplines and professional interests, chronological time periods, and geographical regions.

Recent Discussions

Discussion published by Kristin Økland on Saturday, April 29, 2023

Inquiry: research concerning empire studies and the Internet

Hi all, I'm a PhD student who is curious if any historians have written (or are writing about) empire and its intersection with the Internet and Web in any regard. Most books that I have read about the Internet and Web more generally have not been authored by historians, but by people specializing in media studies, programming, computing, and so on. Putting togehter a historiography about the Internet and Web has been a bit tricky due to this.

Discussion published by Zhi Qing Denise Lim on Saturday, April 29, 2023

CFP: Precarious Racial Superiority: Imperial Prestige and Deviance in colonial Asia, ca. 1800-1940 (Zurich, February 2024)

The rhetoric of racial and/or civilizational superiority was unequivocally the basis on which imperialism and colonial rule were legitimised in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Difference between ‘colonisers’ and the ‘colonised’, and the incapability of the latter to rule themselves evidently provided the justification for colonial rule.

Discussion published by Christa DiMarco on Saturday, April 22, 2023

CFP: Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Durham and online, July 2024)

The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal
July 10-12, 2024 | Durham University, Durham, UK

In-person & Online

CFP Website: https://in-csa.com/call-for-papers/

This Call for Papers is the first from the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, launched to promote interdisciplinary, international, and intertemporal study of this era.

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Recent Reviews

Review published on Thursday, March 11, 2021
Author: 
Justin Fantauzzo
Reviewer: 
Bryan McClure

McClure on Fantauzzo, 'The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia'

Justin Fantauzzo. The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia. Cambridge: Cambridge, 2020. x + 248 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-47900-4.

Reviewed by Bryan McClure (Western University) Published on H-Empire (March, 2021) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Review published on Monday, February 1, 2021
Author: 
Matthew G. Stanard
Reviewer: 
Tracey Rizzo

Rizzo on Stanard, 'European Overseas Empire 1879-1999: A Short History'

Matthew G. Stanard. European Overseas Empire 1879-1999: A Short History. Hoboken: Wiley, 2018. 248 pp. $31.25 (paper), ISBN 978-1-119-13011-6.

Reviewed by Tracey Rizzo (UNC Asheville) Published on H-Empire (February, 2021) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55139

Review published on Thursday, January 28, 2021
Author: 
Andrew Lambert
Reviewer: 
Timothy Jenks

Jenks on Lambert, 'Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World'

Andrew Lambert. Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23004-8. 

Reviewed by Timothy Jenks (East Carolina University) Published on H-Empire (January, 2021) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Review published on Thursday, December 17, 2020
Author: 
Angelos Chaniotis
Reviewer: 
Joseph Frechette

Frechette on Chaniotis, 'Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian'

Angelos Chaniotis. Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 480 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-65964-3. 

Reviewed by Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland) Published on H-Empire (December, 2020) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

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