Explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power

• 1: Robert Bickers: Introduction: Britains and Britons over the seas


• 2: David Rock: The British of Argentina


• 3: James Whidden: Expatriates in cosmopolitan Egypt: 1864-1956


• 4: John Lonsdale: Kenya: Home county and African frontier


• 5: Donal Lowry: Rhodesia 1890-1980: 'The Lost Dominion'


• 6: John Lambert: 'The Last Outpost' The Natalians, South Africa and the British Empire


• 7: David Washbrook: Avatars of Identity: The British community in India


• 8: Margaret Jones: 'Permanent Boarders': The British in Ceylon, 1815-1960


• 9: Tim Harper: The British 'Malayans'


• 10: Robert Bickers: Shanghailanders and others: British communities in China, 1843-1957


• 11: Elizabeth Buettner: 'We don't grow coffee and bananas in Clapham Junction you know!': Imperial Britons Back Home


• 12: John Darwin: Orphans of Empire

Robert Bickers is Professor of History at the University of Bristol, which he joined in 1997 after receiving a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and holding post-doctoral fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (2003), which won the American Historical Association's Morris D. Forkosch prize, and was a founder of Bristol's Centre for the Study of Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies.