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War on the savannah : the military collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903 / Risto Marjomaa

WAR ON THE SAVANNAH : THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE UNDER THE INVASION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 18971903 RISTO MARJOMAA ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

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 ...
The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...
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Cracks in the Dome : Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 / Sarah Longair

Reviewed by Jenny Peruski in African arts (Los Angeles) 52 (2) summer 2019, pages 91-92 (N1.A258 AFA). Reviewed by Antoni Scholtens Folkers in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 58 (1) ...
Reason

Review: The Brutality of British Empire on Display in Legacy of Violence

Histories of imperialism, especially the European imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries, were long dominated by purportedly neutral accounts that sanitized the often bloody practice. More ...
The Economist

Sathnam Sanghera returns to the subject of the British Empire

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, ...