This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This bo

This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This bo

At its zenith in the early twentieth century, the British Empire ruled nearly one-quarter of the world’s inhabitants. As they worked to exercise power in dive

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The Bri

‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’