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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Kindle Edition
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A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**
A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Caroline Elkins reveals the dark heart of Britain's Empire: a racialised, systemised doctrine of unrelenting violence, which it used to secure and maintain its interests across the globe.
When Britain could no longer maintain control over that violence, it simply retreated - and sought to destroy the evidence. Legacy of Violence is a monumental achievement that explodes long-held myths and deserves the attention of anyone who seeks to understand empire's role in shaping the world today.
'Not so much a history book as a book of historical significance' BBC History Magazine
'Riveting' New Statesman
'Crucial...as unflinching as it is gripping, as carefully researched as it is urgently necessary' Jill Lepore, author of These Truths
'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**
A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Caroline Elkins reveals the dark heart of Britain's Empire: a racialised, systemised doctrine of unrelenting violence, which it used to secure and maintain its interests across the globe.
When Britain could no longer maintain control over that violence, it simply retreated - and sought to destroy the evidence. Legacy of Violence is a monumental achievement that explodes long-held myths and deserves the attention of anyone who seeks to understand empire's role in shaping the world today.
'Not so much a history book as a book of historical significance' BBC History Magazine
'Riveting' New Statesman
'Crucial...as unflinching as it is gripping, as carefully researched as it is urgently necessary' Jill Lepore, author of These Truths
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sorted byCaroline Elkins is Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University
other 'books':
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective
this kind of thing appears to be her preferred topic
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Mate. Winston Churchill was responsible for famines that killed millions in Bengal. When there is enough proof of Governor at the time writing letters asking for resources for dying population. Imagine if someone takes over the UK and restricts any food imports and takes all the food grown in UK and diverts it to their country?
Millions of Soldiers from South Asia fought for Britain in the UK. MAJORITY weren't paid and were volunteers. They fought in the deadlier front lines. Compared to British counterparts.
Oh and Britain barely pays any repartitions. The repartitions to India are less than a 2 million. India sends more Investment ts to the UK each year as Foreign Direct Investments than UK. Google it.
Maybe the world should just apologise to each other for their stinking pasts
These “historians” never say thank you, do they?
"In no other contemporary nation state does imperial nationalism endure with such explicit social, political and economic consequences"
Really? More than Russia? More than China? More than any of the assorted supernational attempts to revive and extend the Islamic caliphate world wide? (edited)
I wasn't alive when any of this happened but as I've made a relative success of my life then I'm part of the problem.
I'm sorry to everyone for everything, you should be too.
However, it is hypocritical whenever "non white" imperialism is brought up, such as the Mughals, Persians or the Ashanti, it's talked about as if that was some good thing to be celebrated?.
Brown people, oppressing brown people=Ok?.
I don't think so.
And who these days gets the Rhodes Scholarships or is a part of elite Western institutions themselves?. Think about it, the system changed form. That's all.
And it wasn't really the fault of the uneducated and oppressed English/Scottish/Welsh/Cornish/Irish masses that actually did the donkey work to establish this system. Not that the evils that were commited by them are not worth condemning. (edited)