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2 giorni fa · Aside from the books reviewed here, see also Bill Schwarz, The White Man’s World (Oxford, 2011); Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire (London, 2011); Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World (London, 2011); and Britain’s Experience of Empire in ...
3 giorni fa · From January to mid-February 2003 six one-hour television programmes, four lectures to substantial audiences in the University of London’s Senate House, and a large glossy book have been devoted to his theme of ‘empire’ or, as he also puts it, ‘how Britain made the modern world’.
2 giorni fa · John Darwin’s discussion of Britain’s empires is exemplary. As a necessary corrective to the idea that the empire somehow comprised a coherent whole, Darwin highlights the ‘extraordinary range of constitutional, political, economic, and cultural relationships contained within Britain’s multiple imperial connections’ (p. 1).
2 giorni fa · The British Empire and the slave trade were not responsible for the United Kingdom’s prosperity, according to new research from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank. This analysis comes amid a renewed debate about Britain's colonial legacy sparked by comments from Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
1 giorno fa · A report issued in 1837 by the British Government’s Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes reflects the concept of humanitarian administration at the time. 1 It outlined proposals designed to temper the ill-effects of colonial settlement throughout the empire while delivering the assumed benefits of civilization and Christianity.
5 giorni fa · 25 likes, 0 comments - oldbookdepot_in on May 23, 2024: "Price - ₹299 + Free shipping Illustrated edition “Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World” is a non-fiction book written by Kwasi Kwarteng, a British politician and historian. Published in 2011, the book explores the lasting impact of the British Empire on the modern world. In “Ghosts of Empire,” Kwarteng ...
A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage. A ...
