This is the website of Professor John M. MacKenzie MA Ph.D FRHistS FRSE
Professor Emeritus, University of Lancaster (UK)
John MacKenzie held the chair of Imperial History in the Department
of History, Lancaster University, where he worked for 35 years, and he
remains an active scholar in the field of imperial cultural history. His
wide-ranging research interests have included pre-colonial and
colonial southern Africa, environmental history (including hunting),
Orientalism, the Scottish diaspora, the four-nations approach to the
British Empire, and imperial propaganda and the culture of empire.
This website details some of the many books and articles written and edited by John MacKenzie. It
includes volumes in the Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, the foremost as
well as the largest series in its field, of which he was initiator and founding editor.
John M. MacKenzie
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