Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion.

FAISAL DEVJI Associate Professor of History, The New School, New York, USA KEVIN GRANT Professor of History, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA ROBERT GREGG Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA DOUGLAS M. HAYNES Associate Professor of British History, the University of California, Irvine, USA MADHAVI KALE Associate Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA PHILIPPA LEVINE Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA THOMAS R. METCALF Emeritus Professor of History, the University of California, Berkeley, USA BARBARA METZGER Associate at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge, UK JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, King's College London and Kingston University, London, UK FRANK TRENTMANN Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK