The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset

Book Description:

An original and personal history of the rise and fall of the British Empire.
Constant topicality of imperial issues, particularly in Africaand IndiaTrail of TV series and magazine series and films which have roused popular imagination in our ambiguous past, especially A Passage to India, Rhodes etcThis book explores what it meant to be ruled or to be a rule in the imperial context. No other book covers empire from this perspective