This is a far from exhaustive list, but should help to get you started when working on group projects and essays, or seeking further context for seminars.

On nineteenth-century technology

• Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
• Headrick, Daniel R. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Marsden, Ben and Crosbie Smith. Engineering Empires: Technology, Science, and Culture, 1760-1911. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

On the nineteenth-century British Empire

• Burton, Antoinette. The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Darwin, John. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Levine, Philippa. The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. London: Routledge, 2013.

Regional overviews

South Asia and the Indian Ocean

• Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. New York: Taylor & Francis, 1998.
• Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Metcalf, Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Pearson, Michael. The Indian Ocean. London: Routledge, 2007.

The Caribbean

• Higman, B. W. A Concise History of the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Australia and the Pacific

• Bashford, Alison and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Cambridge History of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Igler, David. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Matsuda, Matt K. Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples and Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Thomas, Nicholas. Islanders: The Pacific in an Age of Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Africa

• Illiffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Reid, Richard J. A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Canada

• Brown, Craig. The Illustrated History of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
• Conrad, Margaret. A Concise History of Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Unknown photographer. CPR Agency Ticket Office of H.T. Hayden. 1910. Wallace B Chung and Madeline H Chung Collection, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver.

Frith, Francis. The Telegraph Office, Bombay. 1850s to 1870s. Albumen print. Victoria & Albert Collections, London.