First paperback edition. xxiv, 732pp. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. Large 8vo. Some gentle edge wear to card covers, a little sunned over the spine. Internally a few minor signs of handling else clean, bright and tight.
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major, scholarly assessment of the Empire in the light of recent research and the progressive opening of records and archives. Volume V - Historiography - is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.