Author

Publication

2012 - Verso, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

142,000 words, Guess

Page Count

568 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781844670673
  • Open LibraryOL27022234M

Classifications

  • DDC942
  • LCCDA16 .G57 2012
  • LCCHM821

Description

"Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing light to the darker corners of the earth. Richard Gott's magisterial work recounts the empire's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the red-patched imperial globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence. Recounting events from the perspective of the colonized, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream British histories"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Britain's empire: resistance, repression and revoltVerso2012-01-01

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