This revelatory new history punctures the widely held belief that the British Empire was an imaginative and civilizing enterprise. Instead, BRITAIN'S EMPIRE reveals a history of systemic repression and almost perpetual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military…
"Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing light to the darker corners of the earth. Richard Gott's magisterial work recounts the empire's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to th…
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, this work traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, through the Mandates system of 'sacred trust', the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and to the unstoppable mid-20th ce…
"'The summer of 1940 marked the consummation of an astonishing decline in British fortunes. The British invested their feebleness and isolation with a romantic glamour - they saw themselves as latter-day Spartans, under their own Leonidas, holding the pass for the civlised world…
Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers lecture notes on the history of the British Empire.
The British Empire triumps in culture, politics, and the military. The influence of colonisation around the world on native inhabitants is analysed along with the decline of the empire as the new nations form their own identities.
The British Empire triumps in culture, politics, and the military. The influence of colonisation around the world on native inhabitants is analysed along with the decline of the empire as the new nations form their own identities.
The British Empire triumps in culture, politics, and the military. The influence of colonisation around the world on native inhabitants is analysed along with the decline of the empire as the new nations form their own identities.
Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers thirty-six lectures on the history of the British Empire.
Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers lectures on the history of the British Empire.
