Empireworld
how British imperialism shaped the globe
- ISBN: 9780241997086
- Editorial: Penguin Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 464
- Idiomas: Inglés
The British empire was built on slavery, but it also pioneered abolition.
It spread democracy, but it also seeded geopolitical instability.
It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notions of environmentalism.
In this urgent sequel to Empireland, award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the wider world.
Travelling across outposts of the former empire from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond, Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad. In Empireworld, Sanghera instead seeks out nuance to reveal how contradictory forces of the British empire have shaped our world and what they mean for our place within it today.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spot the colonial inheritance
The civilized island
Useful plants
Phenomenal people exporters
White saviours
A rational and intelligible system of law
The colour line
Reaping the chaos
Conclusion: An evolutionary outgrowth
Bibliography
Notes
Index
