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100	1		_aElkins, Caroline, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLegacy of violence : _ba history of the British empire / _cCaroline Elkins.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_ax, 875 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf" -- title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aLiberal imperialism -- Wars small and great -- Legalized lawlessness -- "I'm merely pro-British" -- Imperial convergence -- An imperial war -- A war of ideas -- "Partnership" -- Imperial resurgence -- Glass houses -- Exit Palestine, enter Malaya -- Small places, close to home -- Systematized violence -- Operation legacy -- Epilogue: Empire comes home.
520			_a"Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation's imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant "natives," and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today." -- Amazon.com.
520			_a"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aState-sponsored terrorism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPunishment _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLiberalism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aImperialism. _969507
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xAdministration _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xSocial conditions.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _948923
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