The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

The Russian Empire, at the peak of its military campaign against the indigenous Muslim population in 1863-1864, carried an ethnic cleansing which resulted in demographic changes of the area.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...