THE EMPIRE PROJECT: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of

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

✍ Darwin, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

### Review "The Empire Project is a brilliant and highly readable account of one of the great themes in modern history. It will attract the general reader as well as fellow historians because of the sweep of the narrative from the early part of the nineteenth century to the end of Empire in the 197

The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

✍ Brendon, Piers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 665 KB

### From *Starred Review* The title, taken from Gibbon’s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite the title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow at Churchill C

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997

✍ Brendon, Piers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 664 KB

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997

✍ Brendon, Piers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Alfred A. Knopf 🌐 English ⚖ 664 KB

A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as “the best one-volume account of the British Empire” and “an outstanding book” (The Times Literary Supplement).After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the great

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997

✍ Brendon, Piers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Alfred A. Knopf 🌐 English ⚖ 677 KB

A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as “the best one-volume account of the British Empire” and “an outstanding book” (The Times Literary Supplement).After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the great

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

✍ Brendon, Piers 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 673 KB

### From *Starred Review* The title, taken from Gibbon’s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite the title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow at Churchill C