It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

During the heyday of the British empire, thousands of women from India and other parts of Asia were brought to London to look after young children - but many of these nannies were later abandoned ...

As the British Empire expanded through the long 19 th century ... at Whitehall to oversee the administration of colonies from the Middle East to South Asia, becoming one of the most complex paper ...

Excerpted with permission from South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law, Faisal Chaudhry, Oxford University Press.