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

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. This restitution is the largest return of Benin antiquities ...

This article presents an overview of the management of fresh water in the British Empire from the 1860s to the 1940s. We argue that imperial water management shaped and responded to the imperatives of ...