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The Statecraft of British Imperialism: Essays in Honour of Wm. Roger Louis. Edited by Robert D. King and Robin Kilson. (Portland, Oreg.: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999. Pp. 272. $54.50.) Precisely [...]

The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Nicholas Canny. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 533. $45.00.) [...]

Historiography. Edited by Robin W. Winks. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 731. $49.95.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is an [...]

The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Andrew Porter. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 774. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is [...]

The Eighteenth Century. Edited by P. J. Marshall. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 639. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire [...]

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar is well known to historians of India for his work on the Bombay cotton industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and particularly the symbiotic relations [...]

This research paper has two major objectives. First, it explains the variations in public support for the British-led democratic reform in late June 1994. Second, it attempts to account for why the reform has only received mild rather than overwhelming backing from the local public. The significance of the research lies in the fact that according to comparative studies, public attitudes do shape democratic prospects. It shows that the low priority attached to democratic reform since the handover of Hong Kong can be better understood by referring to the basis of public support for the non-democratic political system before 1997. Models of political culture and rational choice are put to the test in comparing their explanatory power for public support of the British-led democratic reform and the rational choice model has been found to be more powerful. The social base of the political reform, as well as the political implications of the research are also discussed in this essay., The much publicized reversion of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China, while being hailed as a success by many, has happened alongside with the reversal of its democratic institutions. After the [...]

In the new film of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs [...]

`India's Prisoner': A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886-1946, by Mary Lago (Columbia/London: U. of Missouri P., 2001; pp. 388. 29.95 £). `India's Prisoner' was the name given by Mahatma [...]