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.

• Introduction ; 1. Britain as a Global Power in the Twentieth Century ; 2. From the Empire of Christ to the Third World: Religion and the Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century ; 3. The Empire Comes Home: Commonwealth Migration to Britain ; 4. The Empire and British Politics ; 5. The Empire/Commonwealth in British Economic Thinking and Policy ; 6. Social Life and Cultural Representation: Empire in the Public Imagination ; 7. Empire, Nation, and National Identities ; Afterword: The Imprint of the Empire

This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in what the empire and its loss meant to Britain in the twentieth centuryand, indeed, what it continues to mean today. Andrew Thompson and his contributors provide a wide-ranging, well-balanced, and highly illuminating assessment of the subject. It will engage and inform specialists, students, and general readers alike