The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire. The ...

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

Discover the vast expanse of the Dutch Colonial Empire, a formidable force in global history. From its origins in the 17th century to its impacts around the world, explore how this empire rose to ...

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Western concepts of law were deeply embedded in both the practice and the propaganda of imperialism. Empire’s beneficent cargo included ‘the rule of law’, and an early generation of imperial ...

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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 ...

Six centuries of history, from the first colonizations to today's colonial legacy : Caribbean, Americas, Africa, Pacific, Asia... Nourished by the most recent contributions of historiography, this ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Imperial history wars, ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...