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Shipping the Color Line: Migration and Transport Policy in the British Empire, 1943–51 运输肤色线:大英帝国的移民和运输政策,1943-51 年
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.118
Freddy Foks
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“A Place of Refuge to Republicans and Royalists”: The French Revolution in British Dominica "共和党人和保皇党人的避难所":英属多米尼克的法国大革命
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.87
Heather Freund
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The Politics of Outrage: Violence, Policing, and the Archive in Colonial Ireland 愤怒的政治:殖民时期爱尔兰的暴力、治安和档案
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.115
Nicholas Sprenger
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Fire in Jamaica, 1831–32 牙买加火灾,1831-1832 年
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.88
Miles Ogborn
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“A Colony to Themselves”: Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770–1804 "自己的殖民地":苏格兰高地定居者在英属北美的殖民主义,1770-1804 年
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.141
S. Karly Kehoe, Ciaran O'Neill
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The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825 一个总统职位的诞生与解体:1685-1825 年英国本库伦的帝国构想
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.142
Tiraana Bains
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One British Archive: Archives of Dissent: Complicating Anti-colonial Histories through the Watson Commission (Gold Coast/Ghana) 一个英国档案馆异议档案:通过沃森委员会复杂化反殖民历史(黄金海岸/加纳)
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.60
Jennifer Hart
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Past! Future! In Extreme!: Looking for Meaning in the “New Romantics,” 1978–82 过去!未来!在极端中!在 "新浪漫主义 "中寻找意义,1978-1982 年
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.57
Matthew Worley
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British Humanitarianism, Indigenous Rights, and Imperial Crises: Assessing the Membership Base of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, 1840–73 英国人道主义、土著权利和帝国危机:评估 1840-73 年原住民保护协会的成员基础
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.1
Darren Reid
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Militant cynicism: Rethinking Private Eye in postwar Britain, ca. 1960–80 激进的犬儒主义反思战后英国的《私家侦探》,约 1960-80 年
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.5
Tom Crook
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