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Every year, the Queen honors hundreds of citizens with the Order of the British Empire. (A 2004 parliamentary ... down to Singapore and, a colonial official reported, “destroyed in the Navy ...

At the height of the British ... empire, Elkins says, because the old liberal imperial historiography focussed more on high policy—the stratagems of what Gallagher and his cohort termed the ...