Jesse Tumblin

Bio: Jesse Tumblin is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sovereignty & British Empire. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications receiving 19 citations.

The Quest for Security: Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898–1931

Abstract: The British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial institutions. At the same time, the military establishment feared the empire was becoming impossible to defend from multiplying threats. In this innovative study, Jesse Tumblin shows how Britain and its largest colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, were swept up in a collective effort to secure the Empire in the early twentieth century. The hierarchy of colonial politics created powerful incentives for colonies to militarize before World War I, reshaping their constitutional and racial relationships toward a dream beyond colonial status. The colonial backstory of a century of war and violence shows how these dreams made 'security' the dominating feature of contemporary politics.

‘Grey Dawn’ in the British Pacific: Race, Security and Colonial Sovereignty on the Eve of World War I

Abstract: This article examines the way a group of colonies on the far reaches of British power – Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India, dealt with the imperatives of their own security in the early twentieth century. Each of these evolved into Dominion status and then to sovereign statehood (India lastly and most thoroughly) over the first half of the twentieth century, and their sovereignties evolved amidst a number of related and often countervailing problems of self-defence and cooperative security strategy within the British Empire. The article examines how security – the abstracted political goods of military force – worked alongside race in the greater Pacific to build colonial sovereignties before the First World War. Its first section examines the internal-domestic dimension of sovereignty and its need to secure territory through the issue of imperial naval subsidies. A number of colonies paid subsidies to Britain to support the Royal Navy and thus to contribute in financial terms to their strategic de...

Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment

Abstract: Part One 1. Colonial urban development : the problem stated 2. Towards a theory of colonial urban development 3. The social and cultural context of colonial urban development Part Two 4. The language of colonial urbanisation 5. Military space: The Cantonment as a system of environmental control 6. Residential space: the bungalow-compound complex as a study in the cultural use of space 7. Social Space: the hill station as a cultural community Part Three 8. Delhi: a case study in colonial urban development 9. The transformation of a pre-industrial city, 1857-1911 10. Imperial Delhi, 1911-47: a model of colonial urban development Part Four 11. Colonial urban development: some implications for further research

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Abstract: Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant" Part I: Foundations Chapter 1 "Planning & Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State Chapter 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State Chapter 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion Chapter 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy Chapter 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety Part II: Transformations Chapter 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 Chapter 7 Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688 Chapter 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century Chapter 9 "A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure" Abbreviations Glossary Notes Index

Upper Canada’s Empire: Liberalism, Race, and Western Expansion in British North America, 1860s – 1914

Abstract: This article recovers a long-forgotten tradition of Canadian political thought – a Liberal idea of nation-building premised on the expansion and consolidation of an Upper Canadian empire. Combining...