British editors ... Russian imperialism has fed and nurtured Russian autocracy—to understand why, as the title of Zygar’s book proclaimed, the empire must die. You can hear the anger at ...

A Russian book distributor has ordered bookshops to "return or destroy" works by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffery Eugenides ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World ... of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.” When Elkins’s book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction ...

It was a former piece of the Russian empire later absorbed into a rival imperial fold ... Particularly engaging is the account toward the end of the book of recent British government efforts to hide ...

Philippe Sands’s latest book The Last ... whether on an empire-building mission or otherwise. Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago (now the British Indian Ocean Territory ...

In recent years, Elkins has broadened the scope of her inquiries beyond Kenya, publishing a new book in March called “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.” I spoke to Elkins ...

The legacy of the British Empire is vast, sprawling, and extremely complex. There’s a reason we’ve provided a round-up of books written by experts in the field, instead of attempting to ...

It is a vast and sprawling story about how the legacy, structures and thought of the British Empire reach around the ... which make up nearly half of this book. That’s because gathering all ...

In “Time’s Monster: How History Makes History” (Harvard), a probing new book, the Stanford professor Priya Satia argues that British views of empire remain “hostage to myth” partly ...

So I think to understand American history, you really do have to understand British Empire as well. SIMON: Yeah. A good portion of the book is phrased as a personal journey. You're from a Sikh ...