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British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn´t
Bernard Porter
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Description for British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn´t
Hardcover. Major new book from leading historian of British Empire. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 222 x 25. Weight in Grams: 384.
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle East. In this provocative book, Bernard Porter argues that many of these judgments arise from some fundamental misreadings of the nature, causes and effects of British imperialism, which was a more complex, ambivalent and in some ways accidental phenomenon than it is often taken to be. Drawing on his fifty years' experience ... Read more
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle East. In this provocative book, Bernard Porter argues that many of these judgments arise from some fundamental misreadings of the nature, causes and effects of British imperialism, which was a more complex, ambivalent and in some ways accidental phenomenon than it is often taken to be. Drawing on his fifty years' experience ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534455
SKU
V9781784534455
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99-10
About Bernard Porter
Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle. He has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Hull, Yale, Sydney, Stockholm and Copenhagen. He has published ten books before this one, many of them on imperial themes, including Critics of Empire, The Lion's Share and The Absent-Minded Imperialists. He also contributes regularly to the London Review ... Read more
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