a journalist and author of “Empireland,” a bestselling 2021 book about the legacy of British colonialism. “That the Dutch have commissioned historians and given an apology just highlights ho ...

While other European powers, such as the French and the Dutch, also had their empires, the British Empire was the most widespread. The first British colonies were established in North America ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

The Dutch created their empire through state-sponsored capitalist corporations such as the Dutch East India Company, a tactic similar to that employed by the British. The Dutch lost some of their ...

Major European powers of the day, from the Dutch and French to the British ... To wrap my head around the deep interconnections of the British Empire and Asia, I began with historian Niall Ferguson’s ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...