Why confine this history to Britain? Why begin with World War II? The answer, I think, is that Riley wants to bring together at least three different modes of understanding British imperialism ...

Mark Philip Bradley, author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century 'This is one of the very best recent manuscripts on the history of the Long Sixties and ...

In competition with one another, they divide up the colonial world in accordance with their relative strengths.'' To Lenin, imperialism is another portion of the capitalist epoch of history that ...

People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ...

social and cultural history, the course will examine the following: the origins of the second empire; explorers; liberalism and racism; the expansion of colonies of white settlement; the role of ...