Introduction: the autobiographical pulse in British imperial history / Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy -- From empire to India and back: a career in history / Thomas R. Metcalf (b. 1934) -- Seven pivots toward empire / William Roger Louis (b. 1936) -- Empire from above and from below / John MacKenzie (b. 1943) -- Empire and class: the making of a history boy / Richard N. Price (b. 1944) -- Inside/outside: a non-native Caribbeanist's journey / Bridget Brereton (b. 1946) -- With and against the grain / Catherine Hall (b. 1946) -- In and out of empire: old labels and new histories / Marilyn Lake (b. 1949) -- An education in empire / Dane Kennedy (b. 1951) -- A child of decolonisation / Philippa Levine (b. 1957) -- From South Asian studies to global history: searching for Asian perspectives / Shigeru Akita (b. 1958) -- Crooked lines and zigzags: from the neocolonial to the colonial / Mrinalini Sinha (b. 1960) -- Some intimacies of Anglo-American empire / Antoinette Burton (b. 1961) -- Homes and native lands: settler colonialism, national frames, and the remaking of history / Adele Perry (b. 1968) -- Empire made me / Clare Anderson (b. 1969) -- Paths to the past / Tony Ballantyne (b. 1972) -- Conversations with Caroline / Caroline Bressey (b. 1974) -- Dis-oriented in a post-imperial world / Jonathan Saha (b. 1984).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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