'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 29th September 1923.
The British Empire was 14 million square miles, just under a
quarter of the globe's land area, and 460 million people, a fifth
of the world's population. In One Fine Day Matthew Parker takes a
snapshot of this astonishing edifice in all its glory but with all
of its ugly underbelly clearly visible, and with the seeds of its
demise already evident. This book is a new way of looking at the
British Empire. It travels from east to west with the rising sun
and 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. This takes in the new, more independent attitudes of
the Dominions to the Empire, resistance and demands for change
centred on Rotan Tito in the Pacific, Nehru and Gandhi in India,
Tan Cheng Lock in Malaya, U Ottama in Burma, Harry Thuku and A.M.
Jeevanjee in Kenya, Herbert Macaulay, Kobina Sekyi and Joseph
Casely Hayford in West Africa, and the huge influence of Marcus
Garvey across Africa and the Caribbean. '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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