UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...

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THIS volume forms one of the well-known geographical series edited by Sir Archibald Geikie. The part of it for which Dr. Dawson is responsible is that which deals with the British possessions in North ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...

THE first thirteen plates consist of coloured maps, and the remaining four are outlines intended for use as “test” maps or for other class purposes. The first map shows a hemisphere in which Cape ...

NEW DELHI — Just hours after the world learned that Queen Elizabeth II was dead, Twitter feeds across India exploded with angry demands for the repatriation of a precious diamond called the Kohinoor, ...

World leaders are preparing to gather in London for the queen’s funeral on Monday. While glowing tributes continue to pour in, her death has also sparked painful memories and anger among several ...