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 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 ...

For Elkins, the “liberal imperialism” of the British Empire is an oxymoron. The British government claimed that spreading good governance and equal protections under British law were explicit aims of ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism ... has been at the forefront of the cultural conflict over British imperialism on the “miasma” side — though, like all combatants ...

You see, people across the world still have to live with the British Empire. Imperialism is not history. Love everything about books? Make sure to subscribe to our Book Club newsletter ...

And, you know, the enslaved who ended up in America did so largely due to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which the British Empire dominated. Britain's racist imperialism also inspired America's ...