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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. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. It...
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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. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. It...
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