The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative m
Tracing the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, this meticulously re