The British empire. (British imperialism)(Cover Story)

History Today | February 1, 1996| | Copyright

I would like to begin by referring to the famous passage in the autobiography of Edward Gibbon:

It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plans were circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire.

I do not know whether similar musings were responsible for the decision to embark upon a new Oxford History of the British ...

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