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The Second British Empire - In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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The Second British Empire - In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in World and International History
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At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked
diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread
people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe.
By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made
Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible
and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was
actually remarkably fragile. Reconciling the humanitarian ideals of
liberal British democracy with the inherent authoritarianism of
imperial rule required the men and women who ran the empire to
portray their non-Western subjects as backward and in need of the
civilizing benefits of British rule. However, their lack of
administrative manpower and financial resources meant that they had
to recruit cooperative local allies to actually govern their
colonies. Noted historian Timothy H. Parsons provides vivid detail
of the experiences of subject peoples to explain how this became
increasingly difficult and finally impossible after World War II as
Africans, Asians, Arabs, and West Indians rejected the imperial
notion that they were inferior and refused to be ruled by
foreigners. Yet he also shows that the transformation of the
British colonies into nation-states was not just a transfer of
political power. The new postcolonial societies blended British
political, economic, and social institutions with local norms and
values in the new nations, while mass migration to Britain from the
non-Western parts of the Commonwealth created a much more diverse
and plural metropolitan society. This book tells the dramatic story
of how the British Empire and its demise accelerated and
strengthened globalization by creating webs of commerce, migration,
and cultural exchange that linked Britons and their former subjects
in new ways and produced blended transnational cultures that were
British in origin but no longer British in character or style.
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