Although their empire arguably has had the greatest worldwide cultural impact, it was by no means the largest ever to try to rule the world. Check out our top 21 countdown of the world’s largest ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

An Empire Once Called Françafrique Let’s start with the French neocolonial imperium in northern Africa, which can teach us much about the way our world order works and why it’s fading so fast.

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of ... but the modern world has had doubts ...