The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the

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Covers the history of the British Empire from 1600 to the present day, and its transition from ruler of half the world to its current status of isolated, econom

The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published