Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean

This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as e

This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimpe

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