| Imperial networks: Creating identities in nineteenth-century South Africa and Britain A Lester Routledge, 2005 | 465 | 2005 |
| Introduction and overview P Lambert, C Nelson, P Royston, P Dickman | 381* | 2004 |
| Colonial lives across the British Empire: Imperial careering in the long nineteenth century D Lambert, A Lester Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 360 | 2006 |
| Imperial Circuits and Networks: Geographies of the British Empire1 A Lester History Compass 4 (1), 124-141, 2006 | 192 | 2006 |
| British settler discourse and the circuits of empire A Lester History Workshop Journal 54 (1), 24-48, 2002 | 167 | 2002 |
| Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance: protecting Aborigines across the nineteenth-century British Empire A Lester, F Dussart Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 117 | 2014 |
| South Africa, Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? A Lester, EL Nel, T Binns Pearson Education, 2000 | 100 | 2000 |
| Geographies of colonial philanthropy D Lambert, A Lester Progress in Human Geography 28 (3), 320-341, 2004 | 91 | 2004 |
| Humanitarianism and empire: new research agendas R Skinner, A Lester The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40 (5), 729-747, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
| Obtaining the ‘due observance of justice’: the geographies of colonial humanitarianism A Lester Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20 (3), 277-293, 2002 | 63 | 2002 |
| From Colonisation to Democracy: New Historical Geography of South Africa A Lester IB Tauris, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century A Lester Oxford University Press, 2008 | 46 | 2008 |
| Ovid (Routledge Revivals) JW Binns Routledge, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Trajectories of protection: Protectorates of Aborigines in early 19th century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand A Lester, F Dussart New Zealand Geographer 64 (3), 205-220, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| Reformulating Identities: British Settlers in Early Nineteenth‐Century South Africa A Lester Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 23 (4), 515-531, 1998 | 35 | 1998 |
| ‘Otherness’ and the frontiers of empire: the Eastern Cape Colony, 1806–c. 1850 A Lester Journal of Historical Geography 24 (1), 2-19, 1998 | 35 | 1998 |
| Indigenous communities and settler colonialism: Land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world Z Laidlaw, A Lester Springer, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Historical geographies of imperialism A Lester Longman, 1999 | 25 | 1999 |
| Personifying colonial governance: George Arthur and the transition from humanitarian to development discourse A Lester Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102 (6), 1468-1488, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| The East India Company and the natural world V Damodaran, A Winterbottom, A Lester Springer, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |