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Article: Our United States legacy: lessons learned from the British ...
Journal of Clinical Investigation;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... from the rise and fall of the British Empire, and from the legacy that empire ... left us. The history of the British Empire, or of any empire for that ... review of the history of the British Empire to provide a feel for the active ...

Article: The British empire. (British imperialism)(Cover ...
History Today;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... embark upon a new Oxford History of the British Empire which is to deal not only with its ... endeavour is that the materials for the British Empire, even in its earliest stages, are ... concern when the Cambridge History of the British Empire was launched in 1929? Is it possible ...

Article: ANALYSIS: Family values protect British Empire.
Fund Strategy;  April 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... performance between 2004 and 2006 British Empire Securities is in the doldrums, but ... wrapper. At the top of the list was British Empire Securities. This is a little surprising. British Empire Securities, after a most phenomenal ...

Transcript: Interview: Niall Ferguson discusses the similarities between ...
NPR Talk of the Nation;  April 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the similarities between the former British Empire and America in its current state Host ... Almost everyone accepts that the British Empire shaped the modern world. British historian ... liberty. In other words, he credits the British Empire for pushing the world into the modern ...

Article: Queens Birthday Honours - Order of the British ...
M2 Presswire;  June 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... PRESSWIRE-13 June 2005-UK Government: Queens Birthday Honours - Order of the British Empire, Civil Order of the British Empire; Order of the British Empire, Civil Order of the British Empire(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE ...

Encyclopedia entry: British empire
The Oxford Companion to British History;      700+ words ...British empire. At its apogee, around 1920, the British empire was the greatest—the biggest, at any ... came to be called the ‘first’ British empire, which came to an end with the rebellion of the ...

Article: British Empire, Concept of
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...BRITISH EMPIRE, CONCEPT OF BRITISH EMPIRE, CONCEPT OF. The concept of the British Empire holds more coherence for historians than it did for eighteenth-century Americans. The idea of empire was not clearly thought out by Americans or Britons ...