Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…This article aims at exploring the role played by Freemasonry in displaying, promoting and celebrating the British Empire. It argues that Masonic lodges held centre stage in the Indian colonial public sphere. …”
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Genealogies of African Nationalism and the Idea of Africa by Bongani Ngqulunga

“…By focusing on this idea at the heart of the African nationalist political tradition, the paper challenges scholarship that often dismisses early African nationalists as conservative, influenced by their experiences in mission communities, or by an eagerness to become loyal subjects of the British Empire. …”
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Postcolonial analysis of educational language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia by Zuzanna Grala

“…The aspects of language policing strategies are presented as a way of protecting linguistic human rights, but also as a way of dealing with the aftermaths of the policies implemented by the British Empire. Similarities and distinctions in the language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia prove that the weak position of native languages originates not in the “natural” decline of a language, but rather in the policy of promoting English by the colonial forces. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…The literary output that was produced during the rise of the British Empire often reflected the imperialist spirit that dominated the world at that time. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling, on the contrary, saw them as treacherous guerrillas who deserved due punishment, and he heavily emphasized the threat they represented to the British Empire. The purpose of this article is to analyse these conflicting accounts of a single event, taking into account the authors’ experiences and the readership they were writing for, in order to show how ideological discourse is elaborated through the rhetorical use of historical facts.…”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…By turning her attention to Persia, she placed herself on the margins of the British Empire, at the heart of the Great Strategic Game between Russia and the United Kingdom. …”
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901 by Antoine Capet

“…Most people today only remember his massive role in the British war effort during the Second World War, but in fact he was an active participant in more distant conflicts—as frontline observer or combatant—as early as 1895, when he used his parents’ connections in high places to obtain permission to go to Cuba, where a war of independence was taking place. The British Empire of course provided ample scope for military adventure, and once again young Churchill had all possible strings pulled for him in order to allow him to join the peace-keeping (in the sense of Pax Britannica) operations on the North-West frontier of India, in the Sudan (where he famously participated in the last cavalry charge in British history) and finally in South Africa, where his daring escape from his Boer prison in 1900 made him a world-wide celebrity. …”
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY by A. Y. Borisov

“…The author makes a comparative analysis between the dawn of the British Empire and current stage of crisis development of the United States with principal issue of transformation of the world order from unipolarity to multipolarity or from single power dominance to a more balanced international system. …”
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Development of means of combating armored vehicles at the forefront of defense. The first half of the 1930s. Based on the materials of the Soviet military press by M. S. Novikov

“…Thus, we can say that in the USSR the conceptual awareness of the vector of counteraction to armored vehicles occurred earlier than in Germany, France, the British Empire, the United States of America and Poland.…”
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Editorial by Thomas Duve

“…Eine ausführliche Rezension gilt einer Quellensammlung zur portugiesischen Rechtsgeschichte, eine andere der Webseite Slavery, Law & Power in the British Empire and Early America (SLP). Im Übrigen spiegelt die Kritik mit ihren insgesamt 45 Rezensionen die thematische und sprachliche Vielfalt der rechtshistorischen Forschung wider: Sie reicht eben mindestens vom Codex Hammurapi bis zur europäischen Bankenunion und deren Geschichte. …”
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International Dimension in Colonization of the North-West of America and California at the End of the 17-18 ^th Centuries by A. Y. Petrov, V. N. Kostornichenko, M. M. Koskina

“…The expansion of the Spanish Empire into California was made possible in part because of the concerns of the Madrid court about the strengthening of the Russian and British empires in the North Pacific Ocean. The Spanish documents from the archives of Madrid, Seville and Simancas – the article introduces them into research communication the first time - show the validity of the fears of the Madrid court regarding the inevitable development of Russian colonization in the region. …”
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