A USEFUL cheap atlas with thirty-nine black and white maps of the British Empire. Most are only in outline, but a few show orographical features. The text consists solely of a chronological list ...

It was the British ... black and white as we are often told. This is the central argument of University of Exeter professor of history Jeremy Black’s new book Imperial Legacies: The British ...

As the British empire expanded ... of the loneliness felt by the white expatriates on their long voyages back to an island they had not seen for decades. Other black people were offered to ...

2 But as the British journalist ... as a critic of empire in its heyday.)7 A chapter on colonial migration to Britain is followed by an account of the massive scale of white migration out of ...

Bodley Head; 384 pages; £25 The British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.

If you look at a world map from the middle of the 19th ... The history of British imperialism is not black and white, and the memories are much more complex. In Ghana, which was known as the ...