From the May 2011 Issue Painting the Map Red Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857–1912 By Stephanie Williams LR
From the July 2010 Issue When The World Was Red The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830–1970 By John Darwin Understanding the British Empire By Ronald Hyam LR
From the June 2010 Issue ‘Deutschland Über Allah’ The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898–1918 By Sean McMeekin LR
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