Unfinished Empire

John Darwin's interest lies in the history of empires, both their rise and fall. He has written extensively on the decline of Britain's empire and teaches imperial and global history at Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Nuffield College. Most recently he is the author of After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000. , which won the Wolfson History Prize, and The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970.