Wm Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include Imperialism at Bay and The British Empire in the Middle East. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire.
INDEPENDENT, The Best History books for Christmas, Epic passions for the past 'Collections of previously published essays rarely command much attention. Just occasionally, though a writer who brings together scattered work produces something far more than the sum of its parts.' Stephen Howe SPECTATOR (Christmas Books/ Books of the Year) 'Professor Wm. Roger Louis of Texas is a historian's historian. He combines in his Ends of British Imperialism an incomprehensible mastery of his sources with the gift to make them come alive in his narrative of the final decline of Britain as a great power at Suez.' TLS 'The Ends of British Imperialism...provide[s] a scintillating portrait of British decision making in the final stages of imperial rule.' NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 'Wm. Roger Louis explains in exhilarating detail the complex process of imperial growth and dissolution... His work in archives, diaries, letters, and memoirs sheds new light on people who were rearranging the geopolitical map of the world with a self-confidence and a lack of resistance that now seem inconceivable.' - Sir Brian Urquhart
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