In “Empire, Incorporated,” Philip J. Stern tells us that this picture, while not inaccurate, is quite incomplete. Grab a Copy Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism ...

Books on the Big Business of the British Empire. ... Mr. Howarth’s book examines the period from 1550 to 1650, the year after the execution of Charles I.

Editor’s Note: The British Empire once spanned the globe so that, as a proud boast went, the sun never set upon it. So what happened? Economic scholar Kwasi Kwarteng sets out to explain the ...

A lot of history - Indian, British, African, empire - is packed into that one sentence. Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera believes that Britain and the rest of the world should learn more of it.

History. Review: The Brutality of British Empire on Display in Legacy of Violence Caroline Elkins' book raises an important question for people today, particularly liberals—an issue that Elkins ...

The book’s organising principle is a day—September 29th 1923—when the British Empire reached its maximum territorial extent. The portrait is achieved with a wide-angle lens, but the choice ...

This is the central argument of University of Exeter professor of history Jeremy Black’s new book Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World, which, according to the book jacket, is ...

THE LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING (433 pp ) -C. E. Carrington -Doubleday ($5.50). The sun has set on Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal ...

Daniel Johnson reviews "Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire" by Calder Walton.

Not only is this book a delight for the serious student and collector, it is so well-written that it draws even the most casual reader into the saga of the Martini-Henry family of arms. Price: $60 ...