Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 8

The Royal Historical Society Transactions offer readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 8 of the sixth series takes the theme "identities and empires" as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on "Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire" by Professor P. J. Marshall, "Russia, Imperial and Soviet Identities" by Dominic Lieven, and "Frontiers of the Mind: Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia" by A. J. Stockwell.