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British Imperial - What the Empire Wasn't (Hardcover)
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British Imperial - What the Empire Wasn't (Hardcover)
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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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