Humanity has experienced thousands of years of Empire but less than a century without emperors.
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The end of Empire also saw the British Army disband and the British depart.
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In the days of empire this was la mission civilisatrice - the civilising mission.
This, he said in his slightly old-fashioned way, was his duty as a servant of empire.
Mid-century Britain had had its own: the Indian summer of Empire and the Edwardians.
If there was no single vision of empire, neither was the project ever monolithic in practice.
Even though they cannot accept the concept of empire, the answer appears to be yes, to a point.
As such, the very idea of empire grates on his ears in a way it does not grate mine.
Nehru, in many ways, marked the end of empire and here again Mr Cannadine presents the division too clearly.
The fallout of empire may include the fraying of the union (because the lost colonial opportunities bound Scotland in).
Havens with him, could signal the true end of empire-building in commercial banking.
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In particular it survived the onslaught of the product of English mills backed by British firepower in those days of Empire.
So it should be again, not of course as the seat of empire, but as a democratic, economic and social example.
Soon he would, in the name of Empire, rearrange the living world.
"Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War" combines historical footage, crisp narration by Edward James Olmos and interviews with a well-balanced group of historians.
Welsh, who was descended from a wealthy merchant family, might have seemed an unlikely investigator of military abuse at the edge of empire.
In fact, argues Mr Darwin, there was, at least for its first 100 years or so, no single vision of empire, but several.
As colonial power and the riches of empire declined, there was an increasing desire to define greatness as something other than wealth and territory.
Yet since Mr Blair is given to making speeches ruminating on the marvels of being British, he cannot ignore the subject of empire entirely.
If the book whets your curiosity about Scottish history, read John Prebble's Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire, first published in 1968 and recently reissued in paperback.
After the end of empire, capital markets remained in London.
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Especially abroad, American hotels aim to provide a secure oasis of familiar comforts and food, just as British hotels did for their own people in the days of empire.
The picture they reveal of failing ambitions, both imperial and economic, throws light upon themes and impulses that are still with us today, from financial bubbles to the aftermath of empire.
From then on, his view of empire became geographically wider but culturally narrower, and increasingly the subjects of his attention were the white men who ruled rather than the interaction of races.
As two medium-sized European powers, both with permanent seats on the UN Security Council and a legacy of empire, Britain and France are at the same time natural partners and natural rivals.
The Romans decided that assimilation was the best form of defence, and many of the exhibits illuminate the lengths to which Roman bureaucrats and soldiers went to absorb foreigners into the machinery of empire.
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