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Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
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9781844677382
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Verso
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History
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HARDCOVER
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Pages
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576
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Year
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2011
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Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britainx2019;s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military operation and maintained as a military dictatorship. For colonized peoples, the experience was a horrific onex2014;of slavery, famine, battle and extermination.Yet, as Richard Gott illustrates, the empirex2019;s oppressed peoples did not go gently into that good night. Wherever Britain tried to plant its flag, there was resistance. From Ireland to India, from the American colonies to Australia, Gott chronicles the backlash. He shows, too, how Britain provided a blueprint for the genocides of twentieth-century Europe, and argues that its past leaders must rank alongside the dictators of the twentieth century as the perpetrators of crimes against humanity on an infamous scale. In tracing this history of resistance, all but lost to modern memory, Richard Gott recovers these forgotten peoples and puts them where they deserve to be: at the heart of the story of Britainx2019;s empire.
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Author Biography
Richard Gott is a British journalist and historian. He worked for many years at the Guardian in London, as a foreign correspondent and as the features editor. His books include The Appeasers (with Martin Gilbert), Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, Land Without Evil, Hugo ChxE1;vez and the Bolivarian Revolution, and Cuba: A New History.
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