Daniel Rey

Priests with Pick Axes

How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo

Paul Cartledge

The First Imperialists?

The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

By Christopher I Beckwith

Maurice Frank

High Prussia Environment

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By Katja Hoyer

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

By Steven Press

Matt Seaton

Watch the Writers

Culture and Imperialism

By Edward W Said

Richard Gott

Proud to be White, Even If They are Lost

Lost White Tribes: Journeys Amongst the Forgotten

By Riccardo Orizio (trans Avril Bardoni)

Richard Cockett

United by a Common Language?

Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics

By Michael Kenny & Nick Pearce

Christopher Coker

Will China Rule the Waves?

Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

By Humphrey Hawksley

Peter Parker

Imperial Designs

Picturing India: People, Places and the World of the East India Company

By John McAleer

Robin Blackburn

We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made

The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870

By Hugh Thomas

Saul David

Hearts of Darkness

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa – 1830–1990

By Lawrence James

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

Allan Massie

Tartan Trade

Scotland's Empire

By T M Devine

Paul Johnson

Coffers and Cannibals

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

Raymond Seitz

E Pluribus Unum

America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

By David Reynolds

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

Roger Crowley

Taking on the Turk

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

By Andrew Wheatcroft

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

Frank McLynn

Spartans of the Plains

The Comanche Empire

By Pekka Hämäläinen

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith