Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...

Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...

With Queen Elizabeth II's recent passing, some of us have spent way too much time watching the somber ceremonies unfold in Great Britain. Nobody does pageantry like the English, and their uniforms and ...

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...

As the saying goes, the sun never set on the British Empire. And from the cool, damp British Isles was built the largest empire by landmass the world had ever known. The First British Empire ...

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Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Imperial history wars, ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...