Empire

The Boers, writes R.F. Currey, made a paramount gain during the peace that followed the South African war.

Within a century, writes Sergius Yakobson, the Russians expanded over Asia from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

French expansion, writes Michael Langley, in North and West Africa during the nineteenth century was an impressive colonial achievement.

R.W. Davies describes the life of the other ranks in the Roman armed services, as recorded in surviving letters.

Patricia Wright describes how the French arrival upon the Upper Nile caused an international crisis.

Alaric Jacob introduces the soldiers and administrators who prepared the way for nineteenth-century Empire.

W.J. Reader describes a scandalous episode that arose out of the transfer of authority in India from the East India Company to the Crown.

“It is time that the abuse of his enemies should be appreciated in its true light, and not accepted as impartial history merely because they happened to be distinguished men.” By Theodore Zeldin.

P.M. Holt depicts 'an organized revolutionary movement... resulting in the establishment of a territorial Islamic state'.