Cabral Discovers Brazil
A fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500.
Empire
Ottoman Expansion under Mehmed II
Rhoads Murphey helps us to distinguish between the legendary and the real in the legacy of a great empire-builder.
Macau: The Last Outpost
Today best known for its gambling industry, the rich cultural history of Europe’s last colonial toehold in China might be the key to its future.
Salisbury, The Empire Builder Who Never Was
Andrew Roberts argues that Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister most identified with imperialism at its acme, in reality saw the Empire as a mixed blessing at best.
Ghana's Slave Castles
Ghana's slaving past, long regarded as too sensitive to even discuss, is now becoming a lively issue. A group of Ghanaians, led by lawyers and tribal chiefs, have convened an Africa-wide meeting to seek 'retribution and compensation for the crime of slavery’.
Tipu Sultan killed at Seringapatam
The Indian ruler and resister of the East India Company was killed by the British on 4 May 1799.
The Making of New World Slavery
Robin BlackburnGeneral History of the Caribean, volume III: The slave Societies of the Caribbean.Franklin W. KnightThe Slave Trade. The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870Hugh Thomas
The Survival of the Eastern Roman Empire
Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell analyse why Constantinople survived the barbarian onslaughts in the fifth century, whereas Rome fell.
Ecstasy in Late Imperial Rome
Dirk Bennett describes the crowded religious calendar of pagan Rome, and the spiritual market place in which Christianity had to fight for domination.
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I
Edited by Nicholas CannyVolume IIEdited by P J Marshall