The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that became the British Empire in the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a ...

In the 18th century, Britain had a well-established empire of colonies in the Americas. By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen colonies to develop in British America. The British ...

It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins ... the origins of the second empire; explorers; liberalism and racism; the expansion of colonies ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

In emphasising the Asian genesis of the British Empire, this book sheds new light on the foreign frameworks of power which fuelled the expansion of Global Britain in the early modern world. ‘David ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.