You see, people across the world still have to live with the British Empire. Imperialism is not history. Balaji Ravichandran is a writer based in New York.

Peter Watson begins his survey of the history of ideas in Britain with the assertion that the national mindset (which at that ...

Although the US debate has focused largely on systemic racism in the context of slavery and civil rights, the flashpoints in the United Kingdom are imperialism ... of the British Empire, that ...

and he re-defined the term as it now applies to the British Empire. Imperialism, he said, stands for “peace in which our institutions may be developed, the condition of our peoples improved ...

How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion ...

The fact is that as British imperialism peaked, prominent journalists and authors across British empire and the U.S. colluded to spread ideas of white supremacy across the planet and the racism ...

and the British Empire’s baneful legacy may well have been deeper and more diffuse than that of any other modern state. Was British liberal imperialism, given the extent of the damage it ...

Yet as Elkins shows, the British empire, like its French counterpart, justified itself on liberal grounds. In this liberal imperialism, empire is seen as a means of raising "undeveloped ...

The sweeping new book by the historian Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence, suggests some surprising answers. For Elkins, the “liberal imperialism” of the British Empire is an oxymoron. The British ...