Product Description: Why did the British empire expand so dramatically in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – and why did it then collapse so rapidly after the Second World War? Drawing on the latest scholarship from around the world, British Imperial History provides a clear, critical survey of the major concepts and theories used by historians of the modern British empire...read more

Product Description: These essays explore the varied attitudes towards empire once sustained by different groups in Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, and by their diasporic descendants. They also examine the images of the British Empire that were projected by newspapers and periodicals in Ireland and Britain...read more

Product Description: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is the first scholarly study of the development of that system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)