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Refereed Books

Empire as the Triumph of Theory:
Imperialism, Information, and the Colonial Society of 1868
(London: Routledge, Nov. 2004; US pub. April 2005; paperback, August 2015)

https://www.routledge.com/Empire-as-the-Triumph-of-Theory-Imperialism-Information-and-the-Colonial/Beasley/p/book/9781138882270

Mid-Victorian Imperialists:
British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
(London: Routledge, June 2005; US pub. Aug. 2005; paperback, April 2015)

https://www.routledge.com/Mid-Victorian-Imperialists-British-Gentlemen-and-the-Empire-of-the-Mind/Beasley/p/book/9781138878150

The Victorian Reinvention of Race:
New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences
(NY: Routledge, 22 June 2010; paperback, July 2012)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Victorian-Reinvention-of-Race-New-Racisms-and-the-Problem-of-Grouping/Beasley/p/book/9780415652780

The Chartist General:
Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism
(London: Routledge, 28 November 2016; paperback 2017)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Chartist-General-Charles-James-Napier-The-Conquest-of-Sind-and-Imperial/Beasley/p/book/9781138330061

A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
(Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society Press, July 2024)

https://www.pennpress.org/9781606189016/a-male-hysteria/

The Victorian View: Ways of Undersanding the World in the Nineteenth Century
(Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society Press, March 2027)

https://www.pennpress.org/9781606181850/the-victorian-view/

Empire as the Triumph of Theory has been reviewed by Bernard Porter.  See The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 34:3 (Sept. 2006): 463-465.

Mid-Victorian Imperialists has been noted in the Victorian section of The Year’s Work in English Studies, 2007. It has been reviewed by Peter Cain. See History 92:305 (Jan. 2007): 128-129.

The Victorian Reinvention of Race has been reviewed by Colin Kidd in the Economic History Review 64:4 (November 2011): 1395-1396, Vincent Pecora in The American Historical Review 116:3 (June 2011): 870-871, and Audrey Fisch in Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34:4 (2012): 368-370.

The Chartist General has been reviewed by Michael Sanders, Social History 43:2 (May 2018): 273-274.

A Male Hysteria has been reviewed by Amy Koerber in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 61:2 (February 2025); and J. Rankin in Choice 62:12 (August 2025). It was one of the 10 Choice Editors' Picks for August 2025.

And you can ask for each of my books in all good libraries.