This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.

It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine rema

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall... In America, kings are not born, they are made. Men with ambition build their own empires and it is their heirs who

The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of

How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states