# Decolonising History/Seeley bibliography

This is a bibliography of books by and about John Robert Seeley with link where possible.
See also the incomplete British Empire course: so far only Tudor Origins of the British Empire (1485-1603) has been developed but needs improvement

## Texts by Seeley

| Date first published | Title | Seeley's position | Larger work? | Location: Publisher |
| 1865 | Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ (pdf download) | Published anonymously Seeley was professor of Latin at University College, London | | London: Macmillan |
| 1883 | The Expansion of England (pdf download) | Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge | No | London: Macmillan |
| 1895 | The Growth of British Policy (pdf download) | Posthumously published | No but includes "Memoir" by George Prothero | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
| 1896 | Introduction to political science; two series of lectures (pdf download) | Posthumously published | | London: Macmillan |

## Texts about or discussing Seeley

| Date first published | Title | Author(s) | Larger work? | Location: Publisher | Notes |
| 1910 | Nature and nurture, the problem of the future : a presidential address delivered by Karl Pearson at the annual meeting of the Social and Political Education League, April 28, 1910. | Karl Pearson | No | London: Dulau & Co. | |
| 1912 (Trans 1987) | Sir John Robert Seeley: a study of the historian | Gustav Adolf Rein (German) John L Herkless (English translation) | No | Wolfeboro, N.H. : Longwood Press | Rein was part of the Hamburg Colonial Institute and was subsequently involved with the expulsion of Jewish people from the University of Hamburg |
| 1977 | Idealism and the Study of History. The Development of the Historiography of Max Lenz. | John L. Herkless (PhD. thesis) | No | University of Birmingham | Discusses Seeley's impact on Max Lenz, also acknowledges help from Rein. Lenz also involved with the Hamburg Colonial Institute. |
| 1980 | Seeley and Ranke | John L. Herkless | The Historian Vol. 43, No. 1 (November 1980), pp. 1-22 | Phi Alpha Theta | |
| 1980 | Sir John Seeley and the uses of history | Deborah Wormell | No | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |
| 1993 | "Essay and Reflection: On Scotland and the Empire" | John M. Mackenzie | The International History Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 714-739 | | |
| 1999 | "A Virtual Nation: Greater Britain and the Imperial Legacy of the American Revolution" | Eliga H. Gould | The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 476-489 | Oxford: Oxford University Press | |
| 2001 | "Greater Britain or Greater Synthesis? Seeley, Mackinder, and Wells on Britain in the Global Industrial Era" | Daniel Deudney | Review of International Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 187-208 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |
| 2005 | "Unity and Difference: John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of International Relations" | Duncan Bell | Review of International Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Jul., 2005), pp. 559-579 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |
| 2009 | "England in the East" Metonymies of Absence in Charles Dilke's Greater Britain | Duncan Bell | Victorian Review, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 175-189 | Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press | "Dilke's argument is eclipsed in the popular imagination by J.R. Seeley's apologia, The Expansion of England (1883), which changes the terms, tone, and tenor of arguments for continued imperial expansion. Whereas Dilke might be characterized as the careful rationalist of empire, Seeley is the fervent jingoist."$^{:188}$ |

## Texts related to this discussion

| Date first published | Title | Author(s) | Larger work? | Location: Publisher | Notes |
| 1869 | Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 (pdf download) | Charles Wentworth Dilke | Two Volumes | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. London: Macmillan | Introduction by Henry Sedgwick |
| 1890 | Froudacity (online) | John Jacob Thomas | No | Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company | Response to James Anthony Froudes The English in the West Indies, by an African Caribbean writer. Froude went on to become the Regius Professor of History at Oxford University |
| 1905 1908 | Glimpses of the Ages Vol 1 (pdf download) Glimpses of the Ages Vol 2 (pdfdownload) | Theophilus Scholes | 2 Volumes | London: J. Long | |
| 2008 | "Racial Liberalism | Charles W. Mills | PMLA Vol. 123, No. 5, Special Topic: Comparative Racialization (Oct., 2008), pp. 1380-1397 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |