Lloyd describes the full sweep of expansion and decolonization in the history of the British empire from the voyages of discovery in the reign of Queen Elizabet

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from ti

A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth cent

Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for Britis

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twen