This is the website of Professor John M. MacKenzie
MA Ph.D FRHistS FRSE Dr h.c.
Professor Emeritus, University of Lancaster (UK)
(2 Oct. 1943 – 18 Sept. 2026)
John M. MacKenzie held the chair of Imperial History at the
University of Lancaster, and remained an active scholar in
the fields of empire and imperial cultural history until his
death in September 2026. His research interests ranged
widely from pre-colonial and colonial Central Africa,
environmental history (including hunting), Orientalism, the
Scottish diaspora, imperial architecture, imperial
propaganda and the culture of empire and so much more.
This website details many books and articles written and edited by John MacKenzie. It
includes volumes in the Manchester University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series, the
foremost as well as the largest series in its field, of which he was initiator and founding
editor.
The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History.
Essays in Honour of John M. MacKenzie
Edited by Stephanie Barczewski and Martin Farr
(Britain and the World Series, Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
Cover: ‘This book celebrates the career of the eminent
historian of the British Empire, John M. MacKenzie, who
pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire
on metropolitan culture. ...These essays demonstrate
MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for
the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the
nations of Britain but also in comparative and
transnational context.’
This volume emerged from a festschrift conference
held in 2016 and contains contributions from seventeen
international scholars whose contributions ‘make crystal
clear why the interpretational shifts initiated by
MacKenzie’s work are of lasting importance’ (Martin
Thomas, University of Exeter UK).
Prof. John M. MacKenzie
Author and Historian of Empire
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