Further Reading Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Europe 1500-1920. Edited by Saliha Belmessous.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Native Claims is a book with a collection of essays that show how the indigenous people of the lands that Britain took over fought back with ideas. This books shows how some people responded to the British taking over their lands with pleas in the form of essays. This book presents the cases the indigenous made based on ideas and laws they learned from the British. This is an interesting source in order to see how those that were brought into this new empire viewed this position and how they wanted out. Darwin, John. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Darwin explores the beginning of the British Empire till the end of the once great global power. This book further explains the reasons the British Empire gave for their rights to make such claims on foreign land. Which is helpful when exploring the question why. This book really examines the rise and fall of empires and reasons this can happen especially in the case of Britain. This book also looks at the age-old problem of whether empire has a positive or a negative impact. Gott, Richard. Britains Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt. London: Verso, 2011. In Richard Gotts book he highlights the oppression the people felt while under the British rule and how this is something that has been overlooked. Gott looks at British rule in three stages Resistance to the British setting up rule, Repression that was set against the indigenous and finally ending in revolt. Gott begins this journey in the Americas and ends in Africa. Gott explores his three stages in places like America, China, India and Africa. This book tends to focus on the more negative impacts that the British Empire had. Dirks, Nicholas B. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Nicholas Dirks book examines the cycle Britain took when it came to colonies and land holdings. This book examines the many scandals the British Empire faced in consequence of the expanding empire. It also looks at the corruption that was evident in places like India and China. The book also examines the roll that men like Edmund Burke and Warren Hastings had on the British movements outward. This role the two men had during this time helps explain the way empire was viewed and how this view continuously changed. Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power. London: Penguin Books, 2002.

Nialls book examines the positive and negative impacts that British imperialism had on the British economy. This book takes on the challenge of chronicling the events leading up to a global empire and ending with where the empire found itself in the twentieth century. This book also examines a key question of why Britain? This is a question that leads itself to interesting speculation that is offered in this book. This book also looks at the militarys impact on the empire and expansion.