The first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain.

• Introduction


• 1: Philip Murphy: Britain as a Global Power in the Twentieth Century


• 2: Jeffrey Cox: From the Empire of Christ to the Third World: Religion and the Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century


• 3: Wendy Webster: The Empire Comes Home: Commonwealth Migration to Britain


• 4: Richard Whiting: The Empire and British Politics


• 5: Jim Tomlinson: The Empire/Commonwealth in British Economic Thinking and Policy


• 6: Andrew Thompson with Meaghan Kowalsky: Social Life and Cultural Representation: Empire in the Public Imagination


• 7: Krishan Kumar: Empire, Nation, and National Identities


• Afterword: The Imprint of the Empire

Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005) and Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010). He is currently a Council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.