This brief study analyzes the motives and processes of British empire building in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as the role that the America

This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650,

It used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V should have commissioned from

Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an u

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule