His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.

In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.

How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism

A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons.

The close of World War I was supposed to end the world’s reliance on arms—and empire. But on the centenary, the Middle East offers proof that this hasn’t happened.

A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.

A new biography of the prolific collector Hans Sloane sheds light on the institution’s deep complicity with imperialism and plantation money.

The incoherence of the British Empire