In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on process

Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the B

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes

This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.