A defamation case filed against Sankaran Nair helped spotlight the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.

In “Empire, Incorporated,” Philip J. Stern tells us that this picture, while not inaccurate, is quite incomplete. British colonialism in particular, Mr. Stern says, was conceived by investors ...

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 ...

A book which will be welcome to many who have found it impossible to keep track of the rapidly changing relationships between different parts of the British Empire. The book is distinguished by ...

The sun has set on Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less ... about it in one of the few procane, anti-self-pity books of schoolboy reminiscence ever to be produced.

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 ...

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 author of celebrated children's book series Horrible Histories has revealed what he really thinks about the British Empire 30 years after the first book was released. Award-winning writer ...

This asymmetry is illustrated by one of the book’s most remarkable chapters, in which Liam Liburd, a professor of black British history, defends comparing the British Empire with Nazi Germany ...

In “Empire, Incorporated,” Philip ... it was an imperial project from the start. In his new book, he extends the argument to English (later British) charter companies from Ireland and ...