Legacies of empire. (how passage of time is generating romanticized view...

History Today;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......the view historians have of the British Empire and its legacies'. The sun may...spate of published works about the British Empire. It is noticeable at first that...that with the passage of time the British Empire and its legacies are largely in...

SELLING EMPIRE THE HISTORIAN NIALL FERGUSON CLAIMS THAT THE BRITISH EMPIRE...

The Boston Globe;  April 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ......fashioned colonial know-how? The British empire is undergoing something of a rehabilitation...apologize for the ills of the British empire. If Ferguson had his way, however...would be a celebration of the British empire as the global harbinger of free...

A brutal enterprise from first to last ; A brilliant new history of the...

Evening Standard - London;  October 15, 2007 ;     611 words ...The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon ONE...sprinkled through this history of the British Empire, tells us of a futuristic short...soared. London is no more, the British Empire is dead, and the sun has risen...

OUTRAGEOUS BLINKERED EMBITTERED; This week a Rasta poet scornfully...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ......on the grounds that the phrase 'British Empire' is indelibly linked to slavery...five levels of the Order of the British Empire, should be abolished on grounds...bashing. The trouncing of the British Empire is, of course, manna to New Labour...

A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British...

Teaching History;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong...placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of...needed to do something about the British Empire it sounded like a good idea. It...

Watching the sun set on the great British empire

The Boston Globe;  December 10, 2008 ;     688 words ......REVIEW THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE By Piers Brendon Alfred A. Knopf...37.50 Many accounts of the British empire have appeared in recent years...The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" asks for a commitment. But the...

William Hodges, art and empire: Geoff Quilley shows how the work of...

History Today;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......significance of the history of the British Empire and its place (or lack of it...the important role played by the British empire in their own national histories...conference in 2001, on Art and the British Empire, at Tate Britain, and it will...

A moral audit of the British Empire: Piers Brendon asks how we can arrive...

History Today;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THE MORAL BALANCE SHEET of the British Empire is a chaotic mixture of black...credit side, first of all, the British Empire was a liberal empire. It was founded...Burke famously declared, 'The British Empire must be governed on a plan of...

The emerald in the crown.(Ireland and the British Empire: The Oxford...

Irish Literary Supplement;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...KEVIN KENNY, EDITOR Ireland and the British Empire Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series Oxford University Press...the recent five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire. In his foreword Nicholas Canny points out...

BUILDING A LIBRARY: The British Empire

The Independent on Sunday;  March 2, 2003 ;     605 words ......history and literature of the British Empire, which offers major problems of...five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire, edited by WM Roger Louis and...Bayly, Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780- 1830 (1989...

Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)

CLIO;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire. By Roy Douglas. New York: Palgrave...preside over the liquidation of the British Empire (quoted in Douglas, 1). Indeed...acquisition and dissolution of the British Empire. Americans, perhaps made more...

Imperial amnesia: the British empire. (international perspectives on the...

The Economist (US);  March 28, 1998 ;     700+ words ......used to having the decline of the British empire pointed out to him in forceful...themselves as the heirs to the British empire. As a result, they often seem...sensitivities in former outposts of the British empire. The most striking recent example...

The importance of being posh Niall Ferguson is won over by the claim that...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine...British Isles to the British Empire. His theme is the...the heyday of the British Empire. Cannadine's title...qualified: "How the British Governing Elite saw their Empire." That is my only...

Interview: Niall Ferguson discusses the similarities between the former...

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

Kenny, Kevin, ed.: Ireland and the British Empire.(Book Review)

History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2005 ;     457 words ...Kenny, Kevin, ed. Ireland and the British Empire New York: Oxford University Press...2004 The Oxford History of the British Empire (OHBE) was published in five volumes...more extensively. Ireland and the British Empire is the first of the companion...