CONSIDERABLE interest is now being taken by Great Britain in colonial development. This interest has been further stimulated by the Government‘s decision during the past year to undertake the ...

The British Empire was the biggest colonial power in history. The empire began colonizing territories in the 16th century and used its military power to spread its influence. At its peak ...

Spain built its empire in the 1500s. It controlled 80 per cent of the world’s silver because it conquered several colonies in Latin America, such as Peru and Mexico. England wanted the money and ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

The names of many streets in Kampala reek of colonialism, those of the imperial British colonial administrators.

Finally, “the war-weary public of Western Europe eventually refused any further sacrifices to maintain overseas colonies”. In 1947, India – the so-called jewel in the British Empire’s ...

Here Gandhi was building on a reading of colonial power that he first articulated in Hind Swaraj in 1909. One of the most ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This paper examines the place of hunting in the construction of identity for both British colonial sportsmen and indigenous hunters on the ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation ... It aims to expand students’ knowledge of ...