A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definit

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. With a population of sixty million people, it encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from northern England to

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from ti

The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World. At all the critical moments of European history it is there - confronting

Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians tra