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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
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A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today.John Darwin’s provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others’ weaknesses as by its own strength.
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| Weight | 0.34 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 496 |
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| Year Published | 2013-8-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1846140897 |
| About The Author | John Darwin's interest lies in the history of empires, both their rise and fall.He has written extensively on the decline of Britain's empire and teaches imperial and global history at Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Nuffield College. Most recently he is the author of After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000, which won the Wolfson History Prize, and The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970. |
| Review Quote | A breadth of perspective few other imperial historians can boast. The British Empire really does look different in the light of it … Breadth of vision, fizzing ideas and a brilliant style as well as superb scholarship … It deserves to supplant every other book on this topic, including – though my publisher and bank manager won't thank me for saying this – my own. It is British imperial history at last without hang-ups; the one we've been waiting for |
| Other text | A brilliantly perceptive analysis of the forces and ideas that drove the creation of an extraordinary enterprise … Bringing together his huge erudition, scrupulous fairness and elegant prose, Mr Darwin has produced a wonderfully stimulating account of something that today seems almost incredibly yet was, in historical terms, only yesterday. It is also a much-needed antidote both to the leftish consensus of the past 50 years that Britain's empire was unrelievedly awful … and the recent triumphalist revisionism of more conservative historians |
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