Staff profiles
Professor Barbara Bush
Professor in history
Phone 0114 225 5516
E-mail b.bush@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
The end of empire and the development of the academic social sciences in Britain, in particular the Colonial Social Science Research Council, 1944-1962
Research collaborations
- Joint seminars with Sheffield University History department on Imperial and International History, 2001-6
- Collaborative research with Professor Josephine Maltby (School of Management, University of Sheffield), 2003-4
Research outputs since 2001
'From Slavery to Freedom: Black Women, Cultural Identity and Resistance in Caribbean Plantation Society' in Thomas Bremer and Ulrich Fleischmann, eds. History and Histories in the Caribbean, Frankfurt/Main: Vervuert; Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001
Collaborative article with Professor Josephine Maltby (School of Management, University of Sheffield), 'Taxation in West Africa: transforming the Colonial Subject into the 'Governable Person'', Special edition on Accounting and Empire, Critical Perspectives on Accountancy, 15, 2004, pp. 5-34
'Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century' in ed. Philippa Levine, Gender and Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire, Companion Series (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Imperialism and Postcolonialism (Pearson Education, 2006)
