Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in

This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical re