“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

Prior to the war, the British ... make the empire solvent once again. The answer, it seemed to Parliament, was simple: levy ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism. London: Allen Lane, 2014; Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro ...