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India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire (2002)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2002). India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire. In D. Omissi, & A. S. Thompson (Eds.), The impact of the South African War (215-232). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598294_12

This chapter’s main concern is how the South African War, and its aftermath, insinuated itself into Indian political and public life. The chapter will address four main questions: (1) What place did India, and the Indian Army, occupy in British strat... Read More about India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire.

To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (2001)
Book
Porter, J. (2001). To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker. University of Oklahoma Press

Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial fi... Read More about To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker.

General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission (2001)
Journal Article
MacLeod, J. (2001). General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission. War in History, 8(4), 418-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/096834450100800403

This article traces some aspects of the story behind-the-scenes at the Dardanelles commission which account for the bland nature of its reports. It focuses in particular upon the clandestine attempts by General Sir Ian Hamilton to influence the verdi... Read More about General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles commission.

Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future (1999)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (1999). Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future. Innovations in education and teaching international, 36(3), 219-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/1355800990360307

This paper reviews the broader overall context to the current emphasis upon teaching and learning within university higher education in the UK and beyond. It considers how change might impact upon both the role of academic historian and the teaching... Read More about Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future.

Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c.1700-1964 (1999)
Book
Killingray, D., & Omissi, D. (Eds.). (1999). Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c.1700-1964. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526121462

For imperialists, the concept of guardian is specifically to the armed forces that kept watch on the frontiers and in the heartlands of imperial territories. Large parts of Asia and Africa, and the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean were imperi... Read More about Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, c.1700-1964.

Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918 (1999)
Book
Omissi, D. (1999). Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27283-9

Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these documents vividly evoke the world of the Western Front - as seen through 'subaltern' Indian e... Read More about Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918.