The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 3, The Troubled State of Populism (MAY 2019), pp. 741-759 (19 pages) The British Empire reached its territorial peak less than a century ...

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

“This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little,” cried Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express. Last week in the ...

Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It's not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian ...