The Empire Project

by John Darwin

Book Overview

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 more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521317894
• ISBN13: 9780521317894
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 811 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"