Professor Bill Nasson won the UCT book award for his Britannia's Empire. "A wry take on the British Empire this book has received well deserved acclaim and a German language version is about to be released," said Professor Vivian Bickford-Smith, Head of Historical Studies. "How did Britain, once an insignificant province of the Roman Empire, rise to become an imperial power itself, possessing the largest territorial empire ever seen? How did the British reconcile plunder and enslavement with moral and humanitarian concerns? What is the legacy of the Empire in today's Commonwealth? These are some of the questions addressed in Nasson's narrative."