Atlas of the British Empire: New Perspective on the British Empire From 1500 to the Present edited by Christopher Bayly

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges. Small tear at spine tail now protected by book tape. Interior and binding are also very good.

By the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901, she was the mistress of a quarter of the world's population and almost a quarter of its land surface. It was a gigantic hotch-potch - a wild jumble of colonies and dominions, paramountcies and protectorates, leases and no-man lands, suzeranities and spheres of interests.

The Atlas of the British Empire not only attempts to chart the rise and fall of British dominance in world affairs, but also to analyse and map the evolution of the states and people of the modern world as they interacted, traded and fought with the British over four hundred years.

The text is authoritative, written by eminent historians. It is illustrated with 39 commissioned full-colour maps and over 200 photographs.