Britain's empire: resistance, repression and revolt

by Gott, Richard

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Title Statements

Full title :Britain's empire : resistance, repression and revolt / Richard Gott

Summary

This revelatory new history punctures the widely held belief that the British Empire was an imaginative and civilizing enterprise. Instead, BRITAIN'S EMPIRE reveals a history of systemic repression and almost perpetual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military operation and maintained as a military dictatorship. For colonized peoples, the experience was a horrific one, of slavery, famine, battle and extermination. Yet, as Richard Gott shows, the Empire's oppressed peoples did not go quietly into this good night. Wherever Britain tried to plant its flag, it met with opposition. From Ireland to India, from the American colonies to Australia, Gott traces the rebellions and resistance of subject peoples whose all-but-forgotten stories are excluded from traditional accounts of empire. He shows, too, how the British Empire provided a blue print for the annihilation of peoples in twentieth-century Europe, and argues that its leaders must rank alongside the dictators of the twentieth century as authors of crimes against humanity on an infamous scale

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012
Edition:Paperback ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso Books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

Notes

First published 2011

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 568 s. : : ill.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781844670673, 1844670678
oclc:on1138559108
LC Classification:DA16
Dewey Decimal:942

Subjects

Commonwealth (Organization) Commonwealth countries -- History Great Britain -- Civilization Great Britain -- Colonies Imperialism -- History Kolonialpolitik -- Storbritannien Storbritannien -- kolonier -- 1900-talet Ursprungsbefolkningar -- Brittiska samv…