In “Empire, Incorporated,” Philip J. Stern tells us that this picture, while not inaccurate, is quite incomplete. Grab a Copy Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism ...

A lot of history - Indian, British, African, empire - is packed into that one sentence. Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera believes that Britain and the rest of the world should learn more of it.

In my 2005 book, “Imperial ... And I think that’s what we’re seeing in different kinds of ways with the history of the British Empire. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback.

The book’s organising principle is a day—September 29th 1923—when the British Empire reached its maximum territorial extent. The portrait is achieved with a wide-angle lens, but the choice ...

History. Review: The Brutality of British Empire on Display in Legacy of Violence Caroline Elkins' book raises an important question for people today, particularly liberals—an issue that Elkins ...

Sanghera, the critically acclaimed author of Empireland, brings the same subject to children aged nine plus with this timely book about the British Empire and how it has shaped the world we live ...

Black People in the British Empire by Peter Fryer builds on the foundations of his ground-breaking debut, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, and casts a wider net to discover ...

Books: Shame of Empire; Books: Shame of Empire. 4 minute read. TIME. October 4, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... The Jamaican massacre was one of the ugliest episodes in the history of the British Empire.

In recent years, Elkins has broadened the scope of her inquiries beyond Kenya, publishing a new book in March called “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.” I spoke to Elkins ...