Professor Bernard Porter: 2 books
British Imperial
What the Empire Wasn't
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle...
Empire Ways
Aspects of British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, which should not be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. 'Imperialism' took many forms, just one of which was formally governing – 'economic' and 'cultural' domination,...