WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL
UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 ‘Helps re-centre
how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN ‘Global history at
its finest’ SUNIL AMRITH ‘A master class’ OLIVETTE OTELE
'Fascinating' FINANCIAL TIMES Starting from the ocean and from the
forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new
history of the making of our world. After revolutions in America
and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850.
It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for
indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised
communities had exploded in port cities. Yet in the midst of all of
this, Britain struck out by sea and established its supremacy over
the Indian and Pacific Oceans, overtaking the French and Dutch as
well as other rivals. Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram brings
together his work in far-flung archives across the world and the
best new academic research in this remarkably creative book. Too
often, history is told from the northern hemisphere, with
modernity, knowledge, selfhood and politics moving from Europe to
influence the rest of the world. This book traces the origins of
our times from the perspective of indigenous and non-European
people in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This is a compulsive story
full of cultural depth and range, a world history that speaks to
urgent concerns today. The book weaves a bracingly fresh account of
the origins of the British empire.
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