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• A Problem of Great Importance: Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire, 1918-1973 (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Karl Ittmann (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (London: Pluto Press, c2012), by Donny Gluckstein (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2001), ed. by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2015), by Victor Román Mendoza (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas (c2013), ed. by John West-Sooby (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Antoinette M. Burton (HTML at UC Press)

• Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt et al.: P. Lang, c2017), ed. by Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, and Jan Clauss
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Karin Hofmeester and Pim De Zwart (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2014), by G. R. Knight (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Redrawing French Empire in Comics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Mark McKinney (PDF at Ohio State)

• Histoire de la Floride Française (in French; Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1875), by Paul Gaffarel, contrib. by René de Goulaine de Laudonnière, baron de Fourquevaux, Nicolas Le Challeux, and Dominique de Gourgues
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Gallica

• Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas (c2013), ed. by John West-Sooby (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• What Makes the British Commonwealth Hold Together? (1946), by Herbert Heaton (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)

• William Blathwayt, a Late Seventeenth Century English Administrator (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), by Gertrude Ann Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• William Blathwayt, a Late Seventeenth Century English Administrator (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), by Gertrude Ann Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Colonial Georgia: A Study in British Imperial Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1963), by Trevor Richard Reese (PDF at DjVu at Georgia)
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations (14 volumes, covering 1704-1782; London: HMSO, 1920-1938), ed. by Great Britain Public Record Office (HTML at British History Online)

• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 (third edition; London, Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries, With Additional Chapters on English Influence in Japan and China, and on Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements (London: Macmillan and Co., 1907), by Charles Wentworth Dilke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, Viceroy of India, by James Bruce Elgin, ed. by Theodore Walrond, contrib. by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Gutenberg text)

• An Empire Story: Stories of India and the Greater Colonies Told to Children (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, ca. 1908), by H. E. Marshall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics

• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, ed. by William Noel Sainsbury, J. W. Fortescue, Cecil Headlam, Arthur Percival Newton, and K. G. Davies, contrib. by Great Britain Public Record Office (full serial archives)

• Records in the British Public Record Office Relating to South Carolina, contrib. by Great Britain Public Record Office, William Noel Sainsbury, and A. S. Salley (partial serial archives)

• The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Sidney Xu Lu (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Sidney Xu Lu (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Colonial Caring: A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015), ed. by Helen M. Sweet and Sue Hawkins (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021), ed. by Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)

• The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), ed. by Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, and Cristina Esteras Martín, contrib. by Luisa Elena Alcalá, Tom Cummins, Joyce Denney, Sophie Desrosiers, Teresa Gisbert, Heidi King, Sabine MacCormack, Natalia Majluf, José de Mesa, Kenneth Mills, Juan M. Ossio A., Frank Salomon, and Luis Eduardo Wuffarden (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art)

• Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013), by David A. Sartorius
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Karin Hofmeester and Pim De Zwart (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021), ed. by Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Korea: Forgotten Nation (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1944), by Robert T. Oliver, contrib. by Syngman Rhee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico (c2008), by Sherry Lee Fields (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

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