UT historian Roger Louis, a leading scholar of the British Empire who wrote or edited more than 60 books and taught for 50 ...

Using AI to comb through hundreds of thousands of handwritten pages of port records, historians have constructed an ...

A new book traces the rise of tea and how it became one of the first commodities of globalization. If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

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In 1921, at the territorial height of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world's population lived under the rule of Great Britain. Things have changed considerably over the last century, though ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...

Dan Hind is the author of two books, The Threat to Reason and The Return of the Public. His e-book, Maximum Republic will be published later this month. London, United Kingdom – Historians tell us ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

America is an empire, the empire (for the time being), and it too casts a long shadow. While Woolf’s Septimus was a ...