Dane Kennedy

Author of The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World

14 Works 198 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Dane Kennedy is Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University and Director of the National History Center, USA. His recent publications include How Empire Shaped Us (with Antoinette Burton, 2016), Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (2016), show more and The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (2013). show less

Includes the name: Dane Keith Kennedy

Works by Dane Kennedy

Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (2016) 59 copies

The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (2013) 14 copies

The imperial history wars : debating the British Empire (2018) 14 copies

Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 (1952) 13 copies

Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time) (2013) 10 copies

Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Duke University Center for… (1987) 7 copies

The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (1996) 4 copies

Decentring Empire: Britain India and the Transcolonial World (2006) 4 copies

Review of The Killing of History: How literary critics and social theorists are murdering our past by Keith… 1 copy

Storia della decolonizzazione (2017) 1 copy

Mungo Park's Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa 1 copy

Mungo Park's Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa (2024) 1 copy

Dekolonizacja 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Kennedy, Dane
Legal name: Kennedy, Dane Keith
Birthdate: 1951-05-30
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Bonne Terre, Missouri, USA
Places of residence: Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (BA|1973, MA|1975, PhD|1981)
Occupations: historian
professor
Organizations: World History Association
North American Conference on British Studies
American Historical Association
Awards and honors: Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society

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Reviews

Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Very… by Dane Kennedy

It's very hard to do a good VSI on an historical period, but Kennedy does it very well. Highly recommended for anyone looking to get a handle on some of the most important events of the recent past.

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stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |