Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself.
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies.
Covers the history of the British Empire from 1600 to the present day, and its transition from ruler of half the world to its current status of isolated, economically fragile island.
DIVA collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in Africa./div ldquo;Archives of Empireoffers a valuable and original intervention in contemporary studies of imperialism, providing a rich array of source material ...
Philippa Levine argues that British history is incomplete without an understanding of its considerable imperial history, and that the British acquisition of an empire was by no means accidental or incidental
In a wide-ranging exploration back to the Industrial Revolution and into the future, The Anglosphere Challenge gives voice to a growing movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tracing the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, this meticulously researched one-volume history of Britain's imperia reveals how the modern world ...