Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...
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 ...
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...
Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire following the death of the Queen in a clip that has gone viral. Speaking on Sky News Australia, Dean's guest, James Morrow, also ...
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 ...
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The End of the British Empire
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For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...
IF THE current crop of Whitehall mandarins think they have their hands full negotiating an exit from the European Union, they should spare a thought for their predecessors. Britain’s withdrawal from ...
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