Notes on contributor
Stephen Howe is Senior Research Fellow in History, University of Bristol, co-editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His books include Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire 1918–1964 (1993); Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes (1998); Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (2000); Empire. A Very Short Introduction (2002); and as editor, The New Imperial Histories Reader (2009). Intellectual Consequences of Decolonisation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Notes
1. It will already have been noted that this essay deliberately alternates between direct first-person usage and those other formulations, and will hereafter occasionally play with both.
2. The false-modest mock-apology with which that last sentence opens is another unattractive quirk of this particular scholarly demotic. The rather arch self-consciousness of this footnote is another …