Empire love in the balance oversized book timed for the

oversized book timed for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Yosemite Grant

becoming a beloved authority

Rebus's team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends

Winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award

Empire love in the balance oversized book timed for theA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale. Wall Street Journal The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britains Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative