So I think to understand American history, you really do have to understand British Empire as well. SIMON: Yeah. A good portion of the book is phrased as a personal journey. You're from a Sikh ...

it’s as if the ghosts of imperial history that she set out to vanquish had returned to inhabit her book. The story of the British Empire in the twentieth century is also a story of forced ...

Arguments exist for each characterisation. But there is one thing that the British Empire is not: completely over. Two new books consider the “here” and “there”. “One Fine Day” is a ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

Likewise, historical knowledge about the British Empire isn’t uncertain because of a 2003 popular book written by a historian of finance who didn’t consult the vast literature on the regions ...

In recent years, Elkins has broadened the scope of her inquiries beyond Kenya, publishing a new book in March called “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.” I spoke to Elkins ...

Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, but publishing books about it is in vogue. A wave of titles has hit ...

In “Time’s Monster: How History Makes History” (Harvard), a probing new book, the Stanford professor Priya Satia argues that British views of empire remain “hostage to myth” partly ...

But in the flush days of Queen Victoria’s empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British ...

The sweeping new book by the historian Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence, suggests some surprising answers. For Elkins, the “liberal imperialism” of the British Empire is an oxymoron. The British ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago ... In any event, “the collapse of British power,” chronicled by historian Correlli Barnett in his book of that name, can be seen as a ...