A new book traces the rise of tea and how it became one of the first commodities of globalization. If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

In 'India at War', Col DPK Pillay (Retd) explores how India survived when many empires vanished into history.

Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a ...

Britain once built a government advertising agency for empire, and modernist artists helped market colonial rule.

For many residents of the United Kingdom, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted questions about how the country is transitioning—substantively and symbolically—into a new era. Elizabeth ...

In 1921, at the territorial height of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world's population lived under the rule of Great Britain. Things have changed considerably over the last century, though ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

I studied British history in college and grad school and am struck by the parallels between the British Empire in days of ...