“I realized that these legalistic exchanges belied kind of an internal struggle to define the proper role and geographical scope of the postwar British Empire ... American and British policymakers ...

If you happen to come across a world map produced by an Englishman ... The export economies that the empire had built in the West Indies and the American colonies were dependent on slaves.

As we celebrate our 243rd Independence Day, and the resultant American empire that would come to dominate ... to her primitive insignificancy in the map of the world,” as a member of the House ...

Is this just a tired throwback to the country’s empire-building past ... Before Trump, was Greenland on the radar of American imperialists? Greenland got much more interesting to the United ...

and the End of American Empire. The group examines the United States’ imperial evolution alongside China’s parallel trajectory, considering the (sometimes oblique) role of China in major US ...