Book Event: Invoking Empire with Darren Reid
September 18 at 9amPT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm BST
Join NACBS to hear more about Darren Reid’s latest publication, Invoking Empire: Imperial citizenship and Indigenous rights across the British World, 1860-1900. Alan Lester will moderate the event.
More info and RSVP at https://www.nacbs.org/event-details/invoking-empire-with-darren-reid
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Darren Reid is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. His articles on British imperialism have appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Canadian Studies, Australian Historical Studies, South African Historical Journal, and more. Darren’s interests also span digital humanities and public history. He developed his own historical video game in 2022 (https://darrenreid.itch.io/ab-uno-sanguine), publish an article about historical game development in The Public Historian, and is currently pursuing a new book project on the intersection of natural history museums and Canadian environmental colonialism.
Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex and author most recently of Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century British Empire, and Deny and Disavow: Distancing the Imperial Past in the Culture War. He is editor of The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism. He is also co-editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series.