Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt - Softcover

Gott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844670678 ISBN 13: 9781844670673

Publisher: Verso, 2012

Synopsis

Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation. Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing light to the darker corners of the earth. Richard Gott's magisterial work recounts the empire's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the red-patched imperial globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence. Recounting events from the perspective of the colonized, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream British histories.

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Review:

Vivid and startling ... Gott's achievement is to show, as no historian has done before, that violence was a central, constant and ubiquitous part of the making and keeping of the British Empire. --Richard Drayton, Guardian

A welcome, even necessary, corrective. --Stephen Howe, Independent

A rich compendium of revolt. --Scotland on Sunday

About the Author:

Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian. A specialist in Latin American affairs, his books include Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, The Appeasers with Martin Gilbert, Land Without Evil, Hugo Chavez and Cuba: A New History. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844670678
• ISBN 13: 9781844670673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576