Abstract
This issue focuses on the British world and Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing most prominently on cultural dimensions. It takes as its starting point two prominent emphases in the recent historical scholarship on the British Empire. First, historians such as Catherine Hall and John MacKenzie, among many others, have made a strong case that the empire played a significant role in shaping domestic British culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far from being simply a remote collection of overseas possessions, of interest only to traders and aristocratic second sons, Empire formed the subject of such metropolitan cultural products as advertisements, popular imagery of monarchy and boys’ story papers. London was experienced not only as the capital of the United Kingdom but also as an imperial centre, and colonial scandal helped to shape British legal culture. This ‘maximalist’ assessment of imperial influence on
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