The British Empire, 1558-1983 Roger J. Best a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and

a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding

today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence

this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now

Readers are offered cutting-edge

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The British Empire, 1558-1983 Roger J. Best a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl andThis is the first major book to survey the entire history of the British Empire as a completed story. Avoiding the polemics or apologetics that were inevitable when the empire was still at the center of political controversy, the author describes the full sweep of expansion and decolonization from the voyages of discovery in the reign of Elizabeth I to the swift moves to independence in the reign of Elizabeth II. The author argues that British