Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction.

These stimulating essays reassess the meaning of British imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

With intellectual rigor and careful attention to recently released papers, Wm. Roger Louis's study asks: Why did Britain's colonial empire begin to collapse in 1945 and how did the post-war Labour government attempt to sustain a vision of ...

This book examines the wartime controversies between Britain and America about the future of the colonial world, and considers the ethical, military, and economic forces behind imperialism during World War II. It concludes that, for Britain ...

This volume covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914.

This book consists of a representative selection of lectures given to the seminar.

There is detailed consideration of the works of leading figures in art, literature, politics, and scholarship - including portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Neal Ascherson, Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan, and Margaret Thatcher by Archie ...