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Imperial legacies : the British Empire around the world / Jeremy Black.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Encounter Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: x, 199 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781641770385
  • 1641770384
Subject(s):
Contents:
Competing histories -- Why empire? -- British rule and foundation accounts : India and Ireland -- China and the United States -- Australia, Canada. and New Zealand -- Responding to the world that empire made -- The slave trade and racism -- The view from Britain.
Summary: "Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are in part criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. A wide ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, it's language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future"-- Provided by publisher.
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Britain yesterday; America today.

The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Competing histories -- Why empire? -- British rule and foundation accounts : India and Ireland -- China and the United States -- Australia, Canada. and New Zealand -- Responding to the world that empire made -- The slave trade and racism -- The view from Britain.

"Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are in part criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. A wide ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, it's language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future"-- Provided by publisher.

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