The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 by John Darwin

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970

John Darwin

800 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much ...

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