Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted
for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and
rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written
understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand how
Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'A challenge
to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your
imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley
'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae
O'Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had
found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history
of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end
of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of
British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe,
profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the
greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many
ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone.
Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a
blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are
ravaging Britain today.
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