ABSTRACT
The comprehensive nature of British Imperial intervention through a variety of physical and cultural environments around the world makes it a particularly important agent of landscape transformation. The place of religion in the Imperial system was always of importance as the British Empire was a nominally Christian society. The Imperial War Graves Commission, after the First World War, planned and erected many of the impressive monuments to the dead, providing a measure of uniformity throughout the Empire. Imperialism contributed much to the areas under British colonial control through the incorporation of large tracts into the world economy and the organisation of those tracts with their populations, whether indigenous or settler, for profitable development and exploitation. The British during their colonial and imperial venture devoted much attention to innovation, engineering, architecture and construction.
