British Empire

"Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire" represents a first history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion. Conversely, historians of science have not investigated the way that seventeenth century natural philosophers' concept of empire was intimately connected to England's colonisation of the Atlantic.

by Mark Doyle (Editor)
An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the 16th–21st centuries