Daniel Gorman

Chair of the Department and Professor

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I am interested in the history of the British Empire (19th and 20th centuries), modern Britain, and the history of global governance.I am currently working on two projects:

  1. A book on international civil society organizations and debates about freedom of expression from the 1920s to the 1960s
  2. – a collaborative research project with colleagues in Britain, Switzerland, and the United States. We are studying historical relationships between political participation, democracy, and international institutions from the First World War to the early 2000s, which will foster greater understanding of how global cooperative mechanisms can be reimagined in the present.

I also teach at the .

Education

  • B.A. (Hon) St. Francis Xavier University
  • M.A. Queen's University
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Research and teaching interests​

  • British Empire
  • Modern Britain
  • International relations
  • History of global governance

Courses taught

  • HIST 101: Global History
  • HIST266 The British empire, 1857-1956
  • HIST 268Comparative history of empires
  • HIST311 International relations, 1890-1951
  • HIST/PSCI 369 Decolonization
  • HIST 370: Bond, Bowie, and Brexit: Britain from 1945 to the New Millenium
  • HIST605 Global governance in historical perspective

Recent public​ations

Books

  • (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  • (Oxford University Press, 2022; co-edited with Martin Gutmann)

  • (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017).

  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

  • (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

    Book Chapters

  • “Experiments in Conciliation: The UN, Kashmir, and Decolonization, 1948-1950,” in Elisabeth Röhrlich, Sandrine Kott, and Eva-Maria Muschik, eds.,(London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 99-114.

  • in Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit, eds.,The Oxford Handbook on History and International Relations(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 675-689.
  • "Global Institutions," in Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, eds.,(London: Routledge, 2023), 207-225.
  • in Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, co-editors,Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 504-535.
  • With Martin Gutmann, in Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, co-editors,Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion(Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022), 1-13.
  • “The British Empire, Imperial Citizenship, and the First World War,” in Simone Bellezza and Sara Lorenzini, eds.,Cittadinanza imperiale: processi identitari e idee di impero dopo la Prima guerra mondiale[Imperial Citizenship: Identification Processes and Ideas of Empire after the First World War] (Rome: Viella, 2018), 91-108. [translated by Simone Bellezza]
  • “Race, the Commonwealth, and the United Nations: From Imperialism to Internationalism in Canada, 1940-1960,” in Laura Madokoro, Francine Mckenzie, and David Meren, eds.,(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017), 196-225.
  • “Geographic Indications, Mobility, and Identity,” in Suzan Ilcan, ed., (Montreal-Kingston: Queen’s-McGill University Press, 2013), 227-52.
  • “Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Emerging Property Types,” in William Coleman, ed.,(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011), 122-47.
  • “Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons?: Globality, the Public Interest, and the Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s and 1930s,” in Steven Streeter, John Weaver, William Coleman, eds.,(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009), 138-56.
  • “The War on the Periphery: The Experience of Soldiers Fighting in European Colonies,” in Timothy Dowling, ed.,(Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 51-72.
  • “The Experience of Commonwealth and Colonial Soldiers in World War II,” in Timothy Dowling, ed.,(Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 147-74.

    Articles
  • "What is Global History?,"(Bloomsbury online; 2023).
  • "Comment on Aidan Forth'sBarbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903"inJournal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de laSociété historique due Canada31:2 (2021), 56-62.
  • “George Catlin, The Science of Politics, and Anglo-American Union,”Modern Intellectual History 15:1 (2018), 123-52.
  • “Fractured Empire: Ideas of Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire after the First World War,”Comparativ26:6 (2016), 15-36.
  • “International Law and the International Thought of Quincy Wright, 1918-1945,”Diplomatic History41:2 (2017), 336-61.
  • “Britain, India, and the United Nations: Colonialism and the Development of International Governance after 1945,”Journal of Global History9:3 (2014), 471-90.
  • “Organic Union or Aggressive Altruism: Conservative and Labour Imperial Internationalism in Africa in the 1920s,”Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History42:2 (2014), 258-85.
  • “The First British Empire Games as a Nexus of Individual, Imperial, and International Identity,”The International Journal of the History of Sport27:4 (2010), 610-31.
  • “Ecumenical Internationalism: Willoughby Dickinson, the League of Nations, and the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches,”Journal of Contemporary History45:1 (2010), 51–73.
  • “Empire, Internationalism, and the Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children in the 1920s,”Twentieth Century British History19:2 (2008), 186-216.
  • “Liberal Internationalism, the League of Nations Union, and the Mandates System,”Canadian Journal of History40:3 (2005), 449-77.
  • “Race and the late-Victorian Imperial World-view,”John Buchan Journal32:1 (2005), 41-8.
  • “Lionel Curtis, Imperial Citizenship, and the Quest for Unity,”The Historian66:1 (2004), 67-96.
  • “Wider and Wider Still?: Intra-Imperial Immigration, Racial Politics, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire,”Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History3:3 (2002), online.
  • “‘The Character Creed’: How Character shaped the British Imperial Enterprise,”Australasian Victorian Studies Journal4 (1998), 127-40.

    Essays
  • Co-editor and roundtable participant, ,H-DIPLO,published 25 March 2022
  • "World War I: Cooperation, Conflict, and International Order," in Centre for Strategic and International Studied (CSIS), After Disruption: Historical Perspectives on the Future of International Order:
  • , 9-14.
  • , The Disorder of Things
  • , United Nations History Project
  • ,International Security Studies Forum(ISSF) review essay, 16-24.
  • , 7-21.
  • , in John Mackenzie, ed.,The Encyclopedia of Empire(London: Blackwell 2015), 1-3.
  • , inBob Reinalda and Kent Kille, eds.,Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations.
  • Entries in, William Coleman and Heike Häärting,eds., (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005-2007).

Awards and achievements

  • Arts Teaching Award, 2018.
Links
Contact information: Dan Gorman