Автор: John Darwin
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 816
Размер: 11,59 Мб
Язык: английский
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 rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence...