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History Is Marked By Powerful Global Empires — But Which One Was The Largest?

Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
The Nation

Born Imperial

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 ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: 1. Great Britain and Ireland. 2. The southern plantations. 3. The northern plantations. -- Zones of ...
The Atlantic

On D-Day, the U.S. Conquered the British Empire

For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the end. Yet it continues to resonate 80 years ...

British Empire Exhibition Souvenir

My father, who was born in 1919, visited the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley as "birthday treat" on 1st May. While its ...