What Is the British Empire?

The british empire was a huge undertaking that lasted in one form or another for centuries. We need to think about the way in which it informs things like our ideas of citizenship, he says. And so i think that we need to learn about it from a lot of different disciplinary perspectives. The imperial project outdates the act of the union. It even comes before the english civil war. Our constitutional system, our legal structures, all of these are produced in in convergence with the imperial project. You know, these are things that then come back to bite us when we see people like ky and william going over to jamaica because they don't want to be heads of stat