Subject: Great Britain -- Colonies (Keywords)

A new assessment of the West's colonial record. In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.

In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal syste...

Convicts played an enormous role in shaping the history of white-Australia. Learn all about their story, from their exile and passage to Australia, to the harsh conditions they faced on arrival.

"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel...

pt. I CRISES AND CONNECTIONS -- 1.The Spirit of the Sepoy Host: The 1857 Uprising in India and Early British Critics of Empire -- 2.A Barbaric Independence: Rebel Voice and Transnational Solidarity, Morant Bay, 1865 -- 3.The Accidental Anticolonialist: Egypt's `Urabi' Rebellion and Late Victorian...

A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human history. For many, it epit...