From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated
Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire
presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the
cities that epitomised it Since the return of Hong Kong to China in
1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's colonial past has been
the subject of passionate debate. Tristram Hunt goes beyond the now
familiar arguments about Empire being good or bad and adopts a
fresh approach to Britain's empire and its legacy. Through an
exceptional array of first-hand accounts and personal reflections,
he portrays the great colonial and imperial cities of Boston,
Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay,
Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool: their
architecture, culture, and society balls; the famines, uprisings
and repressions which coursed through them; the primitive
accumulation and ghostly bureaucracy which ran them; the British
supremacists and multicultural trailblazers who inhabited them.
From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India,
from west to east and back again, Hunt follows the processes of
exchange and adaptation that collectively moulded the colonial
experience and which in their turn transformed the culture, economy
and identity of the British Isles. This vivid and richly detailed
imperial story, located in ten of the most important cities which
the Empire constructed, demolished, reconstructed and transformed,
allows us a new understanding of the British Empire's influence
upon the world and the world's influence upon it. Praise for The
Frock-Coated Communist: 'Beautifully written and consistently
engaging' - Independent 'An excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery
of 19th-century British culture and European political thought' -
Robert Service, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful and engaging' - Telegraph
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