Alan Lester is a British historian, historical geographer and author who has worked for Sussex University since 2000.
[2] In Colonisation and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance he and co-author Fae Dussart analysed the ways in which men considering themselves humane oversaw the destruction of Indigenous societies.
His book Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, he examined how imperial governance worked 'everywhere and all at once' across the British Empire at key moments during the nineteenth century.
He is co-editor of the Manchester University Press's Studies in Imperialism research monograph series.
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