Alan Lester

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Alan Lester is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Sussex, La Trobe University, University of Oxford

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Alan Lester's Degrees

Bachelors Geography University of Oxford
Masters Geography University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Alan Lester is a British historian, historical geographer and author who has worked for Sussex University since 2000. He is known for his research on imperial networks, colonial humanitarianism and imperial governance. Lester gave the Distinguished Historical Geographer Lecture at the 2022 Association of American Geographers annual conference. He is co-editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism research monograph series. He has been described as “the pioneer of the idea” of “a key concept much used in recent ‘new imperial history’ writing … that of the imperial network” Lester has written of his concern at the recent politicisation of imperial history, and critiqued Nigel Biggar's representation of colonialism.

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Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain (2001) (239)
Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (2010) (158)
Imperial Circuits and Networks: Geographies of the British Empire† (2006) (158)
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire (2002) (144)
Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas (2012) (135)
Making native space: colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia (2003) (87)
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2014) (76)
Geographies of colonial philanthropy (2004) (64)
Obtaining the ‘Due Observance of Justice’: The Geographies of Colonial Humanitarianism (2002) (55)
Reformulating Identities: British Settlers in Early Nineteenth‐Century South Africa (1998) (43)
Trajectories of protection: Protectorates of Aborigines in early 19th century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (2008) (39)
South Africa, Past, Present and Future (2000) (38)
Settler colonialism, George Grey and the politics of ethnography (2016) (34)
Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism (2015) (33)
Introduction:Imperial spaces, imperial subjects (2006) (32)
Personifying Colonial Governance: George Arthur and the Transition from Humanitarian to Development Discourse (2012) (28)
'Otherness' and the Frontiers of Empire: The Eastern Cape Colony, 1806-c.1850 (1998) (28)
South Africa, Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? (2014) (27)
Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century (2008) (26)
Masculinity, ‘race’, and family in the colonies: protecting Aborigines in the early nineteenth century (2009) (25)
From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa (1998) (25)
Colonial Settlers and the Metropole: Racial discourse in the early 19th-century Cape Colony, Australia and New Zealand (2002) (25)
Colonial Networks, Australian Humanitarianism and the History Wars (2006) (23)
Indigenous communities and settler colonialism: land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world (2015) (23)
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance (2014) (19)
A Living Man From Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa (2012) (15)
Historical geographies of imperialism (1999) (14)
SETTLERS, THE STATE AND COLONIAL POWER: THE COLONIZATION OF QUEEN ADELAIDE PROVINCE, 1834–37 (1998) (14)
Humanism, race and the colonial frontier (2012) (13)
Spatial concepts and the historical geographies of British colonialism (2013) (13)
Thomas Fowell Buxton and the networks of British humanitarianism (2008) (12)
Introduction: Historical Geographies of Southern Africa (2003) (11)
‘British India on trial’: Brighton Military Hospitals and the politics of empire in World War I (2012) (11)
Reforming Everywhere and All at Once: Transitioning to Free Labor across the British Empire, 1837–1838 (2018) (10)
Constructing colonial discourse: Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century (2002) (10)
The margins of order: strategies of segregation on the eastern Cape frontier, 1806‐c. 1850 (1997) (9)
[Review] Timothy Keegan (1996) Colonial South Africa and the origins of the racial order (1998) (8)
Colonial and postcolonial geographies (2003) (8)
Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia (2001) (7)
Indigenous Sites and Mobilities: Connected Struggles in the Long Nineteenth Century (2015) (6)
CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION AND SPATIAL STRATEGY ON THE EASTERN CAPE FRONTIER, 1806-C1838 (1996) (6)
Inter-Colonial Migration and the Refashioning of Indentured Labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji (1866-1880) (2006) (6)
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Humanitarian governance in a settler empire (2014) (5)
Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony (2006) (5)
Race and citizenship: colonial inclusions and exclusions (2012) (5)
The Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 1832–8 (2020) (4)
Indigenous engagements with humanitarian governance: The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and "humanitarian space" (2014) (4)
Colonial discourse and the colonization of Queen Adelaide Province, South Africa (1998) (3)
[Review] Zoe Laidlaw (2005) Colonial connections, 1815–45: patronage, the information revolution and colonial government (2007) (3)
Commentary: New directions for historical geographies of colonialism (2015) (3)
A materialist analysis of change in South Africa (1997) (3)
:Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality.(Critical Perspectives on Empire.) (2009) (3)
Place and Space in British Imperial History Writing (2013) (3)
‘The centre of the muniment’: archival order and reverential historiography in the India Office, 1875 (2019) (3)
Introduction: New Imperial and Environmental Histories of the Indian Ocean (2015) (3)
The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania, Tom Lawson. Tauris, London, I.B. (2014), xxi + 263 pages, £25 hardcover (2015) (3)
Historical geographies of British colonisation: New South Wales, New Zealand and the Cape in the early nineteenth century (2005) (2)
[Review] A. Dirk Moses, ed. (2004) Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history (2006) (2)
Ruling the World (2020) (2)
[Review] Carolyn Hamilton (1995) The Mfecane aftermath: reconstructive debates in Southern African History (1998) (2)
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: The genesis of humanitarian governance: George Arthur and the transition from amelioration to protection (2014) (2)
Trans-imperial networks: Britain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand during the first half of the nineteenth century (2004) (1)
[Review] Norman Etherington (2001) The great treks: the transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 (2002) (1)
George Augustus Robinson and the humanitarian and settler networks of the early nineteenth century British Empire (2008) (1)
List of Reviewers 2010 (2010) (1)
Indigenous Sites and Mobilities (2015) (1)
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body (2015) (1)
Relational Space and Life Geographies in Imperial History: George Arthur and Humanitarian Governance (2010) (1)
Empire and the Place of Panic (2015) (1)
Empire Calling: Benevolent Empire? (2013) (1)
[Review] Robert D. Grant (2005) Representations of British emigration, colonisation and settlement. Imagining empire, 1800-1860 (2006) (1)
Missionaries and white settlers in the nineteenth century (2008) (1)
Reader, text, metadiscourse and academic argument (1996) (1)
Tracey Banivanua Mar, 1974–2017 (2017) (1)
Benevolent empire? Protecting indigenous peoples in British Australasia (2013) (1)
Space, Place and Identity: Historical Geographies of Southern Africa (2003) (1)
Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire (2020) (0)
Settler communities and trans-national networks: New South Wales, New Zealand and the Cape Colony, 1830-1860 (2002) (0)
Rezensionen / Rez. NG: R. D. Grant: Imagining Empire 1800-1860 (2006) (0)
Genocide and empire (2006) (0)
Preparing Undergrads to Teach (Well): The Colorado Learning Assistant Model (2008) (0)
Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier (2005) (0)
P re-in d u str ia l South Africa, 1652-C.1900 (2014) (0)
Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance (2014) (0)
A partheid South. Africa, 1948-94 (2014) (0)
Imperial Wars and Their Aftermaths (2021) (0)
NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order. By TIMOTHY KEEGAN. London: Leicester University Press; Claremont: David Philip; Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1996. Pp. x+368. £15.99, paperback (ISBN 0-7185-0134-9). (1998) (0)
Christopher Bethell, Charles Warren and the Colonisation of the Southern Batswana (2022) (0)
Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. (2021) (0)
Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire (2021) (0)
[Review] Kerry Ward (2009) Networks of empire: forced migration in the Dutch East India Company (2010) (0)
Introduction: geographies of empire and colonial life writing (2006) (0)
Book Review: Equal subjects, unequal rights: indigenous peoples in British settler colonies, 1830s-1910 (2004) (0)
Steam and Opium (2021) (0)
Global Capitalism, Social Dislocation and Cultural Discourse in South African History (2000) (0)
Settler capitalism: a trans-imperial discourse (2002) (0)
[Review] Lynette Russell (2001) Colonial frontiers: indigenous European encounters in settler societies (2002) (0)
Colonial projects and the eastern Cape (2005) (0)
'Shrewsbury, William James' (2012) (0)
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Humane colonization in practice: The Port Phillip District Protectorate of Aborigines (2014) (0)
Geographies of Colonialism (2004) (0)
Copper disinfection ban causes storm. (2013) (0)
[Review] David Lambert (2005) White Creole culture: politics and identity during the age of abolition (2006) (0)
Political geography: colonialism (2009) (0)
A Christian concept of anthropology derived from the Johannine literature (1970) (0)
[Review] Zine Magubane (2004) Bringing the empire home: race, class and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa (2004) (0)
7Post -a parthe id ‘d eve lo pment ’: redistr ib u t io n w ith grow th ? (2014) (0)
Race and Citizenship (2012) (0)
[Review] Kay Anderson (2007) Race and the crisis of humanism (2008) (0)
[Review] Merete Falck Borch (2004) Conciliation-compulsion-conversion: British attitudes towards indigenous peoples, 1763-1814 (2005) (0)
Doing colonial and postcolonial geographies (2002) (0)
Roundtable: Imperial History by the Book: A Roundtable on John Darwin's The Empire Project. comment: Geostrategy (and Violence) in the Making of the Modern World (2015) (0)
MARILYN LAKE and HENRY REYNOLDS. Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. (Critical Perspectives on Empire.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. x, 371. Cloth $90.00, paper $29.99 (2009) (0)
B eyond th e L im popo: Sou th Africa lit Africa and th e w id er w orld (2014) (0)
Impressions of a New South Africa (1998) (0)
The Prospect of Global History, James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham (Eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2016) (2017) (0)
Colonization and protection: An experiment orchestrated in London (2014) (0)
Colonization and humanitarianism: Histories, geographies and biographies (2014) (0)
Textual Discourse and Reader Interaction (1998) (0)
The New Zealand Protectorate of Aborigines (2014) (0)
Indigenous peoples and the British Empire in Australia (2015) (0)
[Review] Lindsay J. Proudfoot and Michael M. Roche, ed. (2005) (Dis)placing empire: renegotiating British colonial geographies (2006) (0)
[Review] Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw (2003) The lion and the springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War (2005) (0)
[Review] Norman Ethertington (2007) Mapping colonial conquest: Australia and Southern Africa (2008) (0)
Humanitarian discourse and colonial settlement (2001) (0)
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth and Belonging Since 1500, written by Charles S. Maier (2018) (0)
Conceptualizing social formation: producing a textbook on South Africa. (1995) (0)

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