… When Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the British Empire was already …
Wake in self-imposed exile from the first colony to break away from the modern British empire…

This newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees places special emphasis
on the tribe's leaders and their agony in dealing with England, the Colonies, and the United …

Greek-Aramaic bilingualism was wide-spread throughout Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia.
Among the various Aramaic dialects, Syriac underwent a particularly intense and …

Originally published in 1985. After the epoch-making voyages of exploration of Captain Cook,
a series of further exploratory missions was financed by the British government to add to …

… In what follows, I examine the ways in which contemporary empires differ from empires of …
and multinational empires and between regional or global hegemons and informal empires are …

My own travelling days are over and I do not expect to see many travel books in the near
future... There is no room for tourists in a world of ‘displaced persons’. Never again, I suppose, …

… Edwin Drood’s method of exhibiting Empire as popular theatrical entertainment … Empire for
its deepest narrative structures. All of Rosa Bud’s suitors have significant ties with the Empire; …

I begin this book with a study in the form of a dialogue, originally presented at the American
Society of International Law in 1999. The presentation took place on the very eve of the …

Even as a country ceases to be a great power, the concept of it as a great power can
continue to influence decision making and policy formulation. This book explores how such a …

… would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides
… the worlds of the empire’s distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor …