Cities of Empire

by Tristram Hunt

  Fisher, R. B., The Importance of the Cape of Good Hope, as a Colony to Great Britain, Independently of the Advantages It Possesses as a Military and Naval Station, and the Key to Our Territorial Possessions in India (London, 1816).

  Fitzroy, R., The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology (London, 1863).

  Ingram, E. (ed.), Two Views of British India: The Private Correspondence of Mr Dundas and Lord Wellesley (Bath, 1970).

  Kindersley, J., Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies (London, 1777).

  Kolben, P., The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1731).

  Lewin Robinson, A. M. (ed.), The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard, 1797–1798 (Cape Town, 1994).

  Lewin Robinson, A. M. (ed.), The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas from the Cape and Elsewhere, 1793–1803 (Cape Town, 1973).

  Parliamentary Register, vol. 14 (London, 1801).

  Percival, R., An Account of the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1804).

  Quennell, P. (ed.), The Memoirs of William Hickey (London, 1960).

  Semple, R., Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1805).

  Shrubsole, W., Plea in Favour of the Shipwrights Belonging to the Royal Dock Yards (Rochester, 1770).

  Sparrman, A., A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (Dublin, 1785).

  Stavorinus, J., Voyages to the East Indies (London, 1798).

  Theal, G. M. (ed.), Records of the Cape Colony (London, 1897–1905).

  Trollope, A., South Africa (London, 1878).

  Bayly, C. A. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780–1830 (London, 1989).

  Bickford-Smith, V., ‘Creating a City of the Tourist Imagination’, Urban Studies, 46, 9 (2009).

  Boxer, C. R., The Dutch Seaborne Empire (London, 1977).

  Bradlow, F., Early Cape Muslims (Cape Town, 1978).

  The Buildings of Central Cape Town, vol. 1: Formative Influences and Classification (Cape Town, 1978).

  Burman, J., The Bay of Storms (Cape Town, 1976).

  Darwin, J., Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (London, 2012).

  Duffy, M.,‘World-Wide War and British Expansion, 1793–1815’, in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Hamilton, C., Mbenga, B. K. and Ross, R. (eds.), The Cambridge History of South Africa, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2010).

  Irwin, D. A., ‘Mercantilism and Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade’, Journal of Political Economy, 99, 6 (1991).

  Jasanoff, M., Edge of Empire (London, 2006).

  Kennedy, P. M., The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (London, 1976).

  Knight, R., Britain Against Napoleon (London, 2013).

  Malherbe, V., ‘Christian-Muslim Marriage and Cohabitation: An Aspect of Identity and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Cape Town’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36, 1 (2008).

  Marshall, P. J., ‘Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century, I: Reshaping the Empire’, Transactions of the RHS, 6th Series, 8, 10 (1998).

  Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Millar, A. K., Plantagenet in Africa: Lord Charles Somerset (Cape Town, 1965).

  Pama, C., Bowler’s Cape Town (Cape Town, 1977).

  Pama, C., Regency Cape Town (Cape Town, 2008).

  Porter, A. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999).

  Rodger, N. A. M., The Command of the Ocean (London, 2004).

  Ross, R. and Telkamp, G. (eds.), Colonial Cities: Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context (Dordrecht, 1985).

  Saunder, C. and Smith, I. R., ‘Southern Africa, 1795–1910’, in A. Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999).

  Seemann, U. A., Fortification of the Cape Peninsula (Cape Town, 1997).

  Thompson, L., A History of South Africa (London, 1990).

  Turner, L. C. F., ‘The Cape of Good Hope and Anglo-French Conflict, 1797–1806’, Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, 9, 36 (1961).

  Viney, G. and Brooke Simons, P., The Cape of Good Hope (Houghton, 1994).

  Willis, S., In the Hour of Victory (London, 2013).

  Wilson, M., ‘The Hunters and the Herders’, in Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (eds.), A History of South Africa to 1870 (London, 1982).

  Wilson, M. and Thompson, L. (eds.), A History of South Africa to 1870 (London, 1982).

  Worden, N. (ed.), Cape Town: Between East and West (Auckland Park, 2012).

  Worden, N., van Heyningen, E. and Bickford-Smith, V., Cape Town: The Making of a City (Claremont, 1998).

  CHAPTER 5: CALCUTTA

  Anon., Hartly House, Calcutta: A Novel of the Days of Warren Hastings (1789)(London, 1989).

  Bolts, W., Considerations on India Affairs (London, 1772).

  Cunningham, P. (ed.), The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (London, 1858).

  Curzon, Lord, British Government in India (London, 1925).

  Dowie, J. (ed.), Macaulay’s Essay on Clive (1840) (London, 1900).

  Essays by Students of the College of Fort William in Bengal (Calcutta, 1820).

  Fay, E., Original Letters from India (Calcutta, 1817).

  Fenton, E., The Journal of Mrs Fenton. A Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France, and Tasmania During the Years 1826–30 (London, 1901).

  Gleig, G. R., The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro (London, 1830).

  Graham, M., Journal of a Residence in India (Edinburgh, 1813).

  Hudson, R. (ed.), William Hickey: Memoirs of a Georgian Rake (London, 1995).

  Ingram, E. (ed.), Two Views of British India: The Private Correspondence of Mr Dundas and Lord Wellesley (Bath, 1970).

  Kindersley, J., Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies (London, 1777).

  Kipling, R., The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places (Allahabad, 1891).

  Lewin Robinson, A. M. (ed.), The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas from the Cape and Elsewhere, 1793–1803 (Cape Town, 1973).

  Martin, J. R., Notes on the Medical Topography of Calcutta (Calcutta, 1837).

  Martin, M. (ed.), The Despatches, Minutes and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley K. G., During His Administration in India (London, 1836).

  Monkland, A. C ., Life in India: Or, The English at Calcutta (London, 1828).

  Owen, S. J. (ed.), A Selection from the Despatches, Treaties, and Other Papers of the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. during His Government of India (Oxford, 1877).

  Pearce, R. (ed.), Memoirs and Correspondence of the Most Noble Richard, Marquess Wellesley, K.G. (London, 1861).

  Quennell, P. (ed.), Memoirs of William Hickey (London, 1960).

  Seton-Karr, W. S. (ed.), Selections from Calcutta Gazettes (London, 1864–9).

  Shushtari, S., Kitab Tuhfat al-‘Alam (Bombay, 1847).

  Stavorinus, J., Voyages to the East Indies (London, 1798).

  Trevelyan, G. O., Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (London, 1881).

  Valentia, George, Viscount, Voyages and Travels to India (London, 1809).

  Woodrow, H., Macaulay’s Minutes on Education in India, Written in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837 (Calcutta, 1862).

  Bach, B. P., Calcutta’s Edifice: The Buildings of a Great City (New Delhi, 2006).

  Banerjea, D., European Calcutta (New Delhi, 2005).

  Butler, I., The Eldest Brother: The Marquess of Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington’s Eldest Brother (London, 1973).

  Chatterjee, P., ‘Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois At Last?’ in P. Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed (New York, 2004).

  Chatterjee, P., The Black Hole of Empire (Princeton, 2012).

  Chatterjee, P., Empire and Nation (New York, 2010).

  Chatterjee, P
., The Politics of the Governed (New York, 2004).

  Chattopadhyay, S., ‘Blurring Boundaries: The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 59, 2 (2000).

  Chattopadhyay, S., Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (London, 2005).

  Chaudhuri, K. N., The English East India Company (London, 1965).

  Chaudhuri, S. (ed.), Calcutta: The Living City (Oxford, 1990).

  Dalrymple, W., White Mughals (London, 2004).

  Dirks, N. B., The Scandal of Empire (London, 2006).

  Ghosh, D., Sex and the Family in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2006).

  Ghosh, D. and Kennedy, D. (eds.), Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (New Delhi, 2006).

  Guha, R., A Rule of Property for Bengal (New Delhi, 1981).

  Gupta, P. D., Ten Walks in Calcutta (Kolkata, 2008).

  Gupta, S., ‘Theory and Practice of Town Planning in Calcutta, 1817–1912’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 30, 1 (1993).

  Hawes, C. J., Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773–1833 (London, 1996).

  Kincaid, D., British Social Life in India, 1608–1937 (London, 1938).

  Kling, B. B., Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India (Calcutta, 1981).

  Kopf, D., British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773–1835 (Berkeley, 1969).

  Losty, J. P., Calcutta: City of Palaces (London, 1990).

  Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The British Discovery of Hinduism (Cambridge, 1970).

  Marshall, P. J., ‘The British in Asia, 1700–1765’, in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Marshall, P. J., The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America (Oxford, 2005).

  Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Marshall, P. J., ‘The White Town of Calcutta under the Rule of the East India Company’, Indo-British Review, 21 (1996).

  Moon, P., The British Conquest and Dominion of India (London, 1989).

  Moorhouse, G., Calcutta (London, 1998).

  Morris, J. and Winchester, S., Stones of Empire (Oxford, 2005).

  Mukherjee, S. N., Calcutta: Essays in Urban History (Calcutta, 1993).

  Raj, K., ‘Colonial Encounters and the Forging of New Knowledge and National Identities: Great Britain and India, 1760–1850’, Osiris, 2nd Series, 15 (2000).

  Raj, K., Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia, 1650–1900 (Basingstoke, 2007).

  Robins, N., The Corporation that Changed the World (London, 2006).

  Severn, J., Architects of Empire: The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers (Norman, 2007).

  Sinha, P., ‘Calcutta and the Currents of History, 1690–1912’, in Sukanta Chaudhuri (ed.), Calcutta: The Living City (Oxford, 1990).

  Sreemani, S., Anatomy of a Colonial Town: Calcutta, 1756–1794 (Calcutta, 1994).

  Stokes, E., The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford, 1963).

  Teltscher, K., India Inscribed: European and British Writings on India, 1600–1800 (New Delhi, 1995).

  Travers, R., Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India (Cambridge, 2007).

  Webster, A., The Richest East India Merchant: The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta (Leicester, 2007).

  CHAPTER 6: HONG KONG

  Belcher, E., Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Performed in Her Majesty’s Ship Sulphur, during the Years 1836–1842 (London, 1843).

  Bingham, J. E., Narrative of the Expedition to China, from the Commencement of the War to Its Termination in 1842 (London, 1853).

  Cunynghame, A., An Aide-de-Camp’s Recollections of Service in China (London, 1844).

  Disraeli, B., Sybil, or, The Two Nations (1845) (London, 1980).

  Eitel, E. J., Europe in China (1895) (Oxford, 1983).

  Endacott, G. B. (ed.), An Eastern Entrepôt (London, 1964).

  Hall, W. H. and Bernard, W. D., Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis (London, 1845).

  Hamilton Lindsay, H., Letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston on British Relations with China (London, 1836).

  Hodder, E. (ed.), The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. (London, 1886).

  Kipling, R., From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (London, 1888).

  Legge, H. E., James Legge: Missionary and Scholar (London, 1905).

  Legge, Rev. J., ‘The Colony of Hong Kong’ (1872), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 11 (1971).

  Le Pichon, A. (ed), China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong 1827–1843 (Oxford, 2006).

  The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861, vol. 1: 1837–1843 (London, 1907), vol. 2: 1844–1861 (London 1908).

  Macgowan, J., How England Saved China (London, 1913).

  Matheson, J., The Present Position and Prospects of the British Trade with China (London, 1836).

  Milne, R. G., Sinim: A Plea for China. A Discourse Delivered in Providence Chapel, Whitehaven (London, 1843).

  Minute by Sir T. S. Raffles on the Establishment of a Malay College at Singapore, 1819, British Library D742/38, Microfilm No. NAB 083.

  Nicolson, H., Curzon (London, 1934).

  Redesdale, Lord, The Attaché at Peking (London, 1900).

  Report from the Select Committee on Commercial Relations with China (London, 1847).

  Sirr, H. C., China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs and Manufactures (London, 1849).

  Smith, A., To China and Back (1859) (Hong Kong, 1974).

  Smith, G., A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to each of the Consular Cities of China and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan (London, 1847).

  Tao, W., ‘My Sojourn in Hong Kong’, translated by Yang Qinghua, in Renditions, Special Issue, 29–30 (1988).

  Tiffany, O., The Canton Chinese: or, The American’s Sojourn in the Celestial Empire (Boston, 1849).

  Verne, J., Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) (London, 2012).

  Wood, W. M., Fankwei: or, The San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China and Japan (New York, 1859).

  Bickers, R., The Scramble for China (London, 2011).

  Bickers, R., ‘Shanghailanders: The Formation and Identity of the British Settler Community in Shanghai 1843–1937’, Past and Present, 159 (1998).

  Blake, R., Jardine Matheson: Traders of the Far East (London, 1999).

  Brook, T. and Wakabayashi, B. T. (eds.), Opium Regimes: China, Britain and Japan (London, 2000).

  Carroll, J. M., A Concise History of Hong Kong (Plymouth, 2007).

  Carroll, J. M., Edge of Empire: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (London, 2005).

  Chan, M. K. (ed.), Precarious Balance: Hong Kong between China & Britain, 1842–1992 (New York, 1994).

  Crisswell, C., The Taipans: Hong Kong’s Merchant Princes (Oxford, 1981).

  Endacott, G. B., A History of Hong Kong (London, 1958).

  Faure, D. (ed.), Society: A Documentary History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1997).

  Gallagher, J. and Robinson, R., ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’, The Economic History Review, 6, 1 (1953).

  Ghosh, A., Sea of Poppies (London, 2009).

  Greenberg, M., British Trade and the Opening of China 1800–1842 (Cambridge, 1951).

  Holtrop, P. N. and McLeod, H. (eds.), Missions and Missionaries (Woodbridge, 2000).

  Home, R. K., ‘Colonial Town Planning in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong’, Planning History, 11 (1989).

  Hsü, I., The Rise of Modern China (Oxford, 2000).

  Kong, W. M., James Legge: A Pioneer at Crossroads of East and West (Hong Kong, 1996).

  Kwan, C. W., The Mak
ing of Hong Kong Society (Oxford, 1991).

  Liu, L. H., The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (Cambridge, Mass., 2009).

  Lowe, K., ‘The Beliefs, Aspirations and Methods of the First Missionaries in British Hong Kong, 1841–5’, in Pieter N. Holtrop and Hugh McLeod (eds.), Missions and Missionaries (Woodbridge, 2000).

  Meyer, D. R., Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge, 2000).

  Morris, J., Building Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1995).

  Morris, J., Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire (London, 1997).

  Mote, F. W., Imperial China 900–1800 (Cambridge, Mass., 2003).

  Munn, C. M., Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong 1841–1880 (Richmond, 2001).

  Munn, C. M., ‘The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845–1885’, in T. Brook and B. T. Wakabayashi (eds.), Opium Regimes: China, Britain and Japan (London, 2000).

  Pope-Hennessy, J., Half-Crown Colony (London, 1969).

  Sayer, G. R., Hong Kong: Birth, Adolescence, and Coming of Age (London, 1937).

  Smith, C., A Sense of History: Studies in the Social and Urban History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1995).

  Stanley, B., The Bible and the Flag (Leicester, 1990).

  Steeds, D. and Nish, I. H., China, Japan and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Dublin, 1977).

  Trocki, C. A., ‘Drugs, Taxes and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia’, in Timothy Brook and Bon Tadashi Wakabayashi (eds.), Opium Regimes: China, Britain and Japan (London, 2000).

  Tsai, J.-F., Hong Kong in Chinese History (New York, 1993).

  Welsh, F., A History of Hong Kong (Plymouth, 2007).

  White, B.-S. (ed.), Hong Kong: Somewhere between Heaven and Earth (Oxford, 1996).

  Wong, J. Y., Deadly Dream: Opium, Imperialism and the ‘Arrow’ War in China (Cambridge, 1998).

  CHAPTER 7: BOMBAY

  Anon., Bombay and Its Ducks of 1882 by One of the Latter (Bombay, 1882).

  Berkley, J. J., Paper on the Thul Ghaut Railway Incline (Bombay, 1850).

  Buckingham, S., ‘Autobiography’, in R. P. Karkaria (ed.), The Charm of Bombay (Bombay, 1915).

  Carlyle, T., ‘Chartism’, in Selected Writings (Harmondsworth, 1986).

  Carpenter, M., Six Months in India (London, 1868).

  Conybeare, H., Report on the Sanitary State and Requirements of Bombay, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, New Series, vol. 11 (Bombay, 1855).