Ebook: Britain’s Empires: A History, 1600-2020

A history of the many different British Empires –the Old Colonial System (1600–1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776–1870), the New Imperialism (1870–1945), Decolonisation (1945–1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990–2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention.