British imperial : what the empire wasn't

The Resource British imperial : what the empire wasn't

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British imperial : what the empire wasn't

Title remainder

what the empire wasn't

Statement of responsibility

Bernard Porter

Language

eng

Summary

"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 of research and writing on the subject, Porter aims to clear away many of the misconceptions that surround the story of the British Empire's rise, governance and fall; and to point some ways to a fairer (though not necessarily more favourable) assessment of it. He addresses the connections of imperialism with capitalism, racism and British domestic culture, and ends with some reflections on the modern repercussions of both the Empire itself, and the myths which have sprung up around it."--

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IDEBK

Dewey number

325/.341

Index

index present

LC call number

DA16

LC item number

.P668 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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