During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competitio

This 1912 work analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the British Empire by means of comparison with that of Rome.

Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinar

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