'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and
sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of
Empireland The story of the British Empire at its maximum
territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the
colonised than have ever been recorded before On Saturday 29
September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British
Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial
extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land
mass, containing 460 million people. But the tide was beginning to
turn. This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It
immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on
particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from
newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films
and novels: from a remote Pacific Island facing the removal of its
entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and
the West Indies. In some ways, the issues of a hundred years ago
are with us still: debates around cultural and ethnic identity in a
globalised world; how to manage multi-ethnic political entities;
racism; the divisive co-opting of religion for political purposes;
the dangers of ignorance. In others it is totally alien. What
remains extraordinary is the Empire's ability to reveal the most
compelling human stories. Never before has there been a book which
contains such a wide spread of vivid experiences from both
colonised and coloniser: from Pan-Africanists in West Africa to
militant Buddhists in Burma; governors, policemen and nurses. 'An
engrossing and wide-ranging account of the zenith of the British
Empire - with all the contradictions, brittleness, ambition and
hubris that moment entailed. Across Continents and characters,
Matthew Parker provides a new, global history of British
imperialism which feels both epic and immediate' Tristram Hunt
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