David Lambert is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Peter Merriman is Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth University

1 Empire and mobility: an introduction - David Lambert and Peter Merriman
2 Military print culture, knowledge and terrain: knowledge mobility and eighteenth-century military colonialism - Huw J. Davies
3 A contested vision of empire: anonymity, authority, and mobility in the reception of William Macintosh's Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1782) - Innes M. Keighren
4 The art of travel in the name of science: mobility and erasure in the art of Flinders's Australian voyage, 1801-3 - Sarah Thomas
5 'On their own element': nineteenth-century seamen's missions and merchant seamen's mobility - Justine Atkinson
6 'Easy chair geography': the fabrication of an immobile culture of nineteenth-century exploration - Natalie Cox
7 Consorting with 'others': vagrancy laws and unauthorised mobility across colonial borders in New Zealand from 1877 to 1900 - Catharine Coleborne
8 Trekking around Upper Burma: Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe's exploration of the frontier districts, 1903 - Nuala C. Johnson
9 Reading the skies, writing mobility: on the road with a colonial meteorologist - Martin Mahony
10 Grounded: the limits of British imperial aeromobility - Liz Millward
11 Afterword: westward the course of empire takes its way - Tim Cresswell
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