In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial Histo

From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James reco

A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring

The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acqui

An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M