Ashley Jackson (born 1971) is a professor of imperial and military history in the Defence Studies Department at
King's College London and a
visiting fellow
In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...
at
Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Jackson is a specialist in the history of the British Empire.
[David Killingray, "The British Empire and the Second World War, by Ashley Jackson," ''African Affairs'' 108#432, (July 2009) pp. 489–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adp027 ]
Publications
Jackson has published several books, including:
: ''Botswana, 1939-1945 : An African Country at War'' (1999)
: ''War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean'' (2001)
: ''The British Empire and the Second World War'' (2006)
: ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Grand Tour of the British Empire at its Height'' (2009)
: ''Distant Drums : The Role of Colonies in British Imperial Warfare'' (February 2010)
: ''Churchill'' (2011)
: ''Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism'' (with David Tomkins)
: ''The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction'' (2013)
: ''Buildings of Empire'' (2013)
: ''Persian Gulf Command: A History of The Second World War in Iran and Iraq'' (2018)
: ''Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes: Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War''
His articles include:
* Jackson, Ashley. "Governing empire: colonial memoirs and the history of HM overseas civil service." ''African Affairs'' Vol. 103, No. 412 (Jul., 2004), pp. 471-49
online* Jackson, Ashley. "Empire and beyond: the pursuit of overseas national interests in the late twentieth century." ''English Historical Review'' 122.499 (2007): 1350–1366.
* Jackson, Ashley. "New Research on the British Empire and the Second World War: Part II." ''Global War Studies'' 7.2 (2010): 157–184
online
See also
*
Historiography of the British Empire
The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to develop a history of Britain's empire. Historians and their ideas are the main focus here; specific lands and histori ...
Notes
Further reading
* Herbert, Eugenia W. "Ashley Jackson. Buildings of Empire." ''American Historical Review'' 120#2 (2015): 575–576.
External links
* "Jackson, Professor Ashley," King's College Londo
Academics of King's College London
British historians
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
1971 births
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