"The chart below shows the geographic size of the British Empire going back to 1860," writes Dalio. "Note how it rose from 1860 until 1920, flatted out until 1950 and then collapsed. By comparing ...

The British Empire is only one of the ... This is an image of the Spanish Empire at its greatest anachronistic extent: But let me blow your mind a little bit more. By the latter half of the ...

Below is a map from 1901 showing the “British Empire” at one of its peak periods. The map doesn't convey the extent of British influence, especially, in Latin America. This is what historians ...

To what extent was British hegemony in empire, trade and industry based on the growth of imperial commerce? Many historians have discussed this basic question, and disputed the level of stimulus ...

The empire on which the sun ... the day the British Mandate for Palestine came into legal effect, that it reached its maximum extent. This prompted a surge of exhilaration among self-styled ...

Subscribe today »] More than half a century after the British Empire entered its endgame, historians are nowhere near a full assessment ... given the extent of the damage it inflicted over ...

Every year, the Queen honors hundreds of citizens with the Order of the British Empire. (A 2004 parliamentary ... would not have been surprised by the extent of government duplicity.