Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire and the author of many books including Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonisation (I.B.Tauris), The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 and Imperialism at Bay, 1941-1945.

• Introduction by Wm. Roger Louis1British Architecture by Bernard Porter2Kipling and America by Thomas Pinney3French and British Colonial Heroes by Bernard Sebe4Henry James and British Power by Priscilla Roberts5Virginia Woolf and Russia by Roberta Rubenstein6Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War by Sam Williamson7Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings8Olivia Manning by Phyllis Lasner9Julian Bell by Peter Stansky10Auden by Steven Isenberg11Bowra by Glen Bowersock12Trevor-Roper by Neil Ascherson13Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan14The Third Man by Donna Kornhaber15Harold Macmillan and the Wind of Change by Joanna Lewis16The End of the European Colonial Empires by Crawford Young17Life in the Zambian Copper Belt by John Berry18Mrs. Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown19Invictus by Dan Jacobson20The Grand Illusion by Geoffrey Wheatcroft21British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2011

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