Empireland : how imperialism has shaped modern Britain
Record details
- ISBN: 9780241445310
- ISBN: 0241445299
- ISBN: 9780241445297
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Physical Description:
xii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: UK : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-264) and index. |
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Subject: | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century Great Britain -- History National characteristics, British Collective memory -- Great Britain Imperialism |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | DA 27.5 S32 2021 (Text) | B001683911 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In his brilliantly illuminating book, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how our past is everywhere: from how we live to how we think, from the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism, from our distrust of intellectuals in public life to the exceptionalism that imbued the campaign for Brexit and the government's early response to the Covid crisis. And yet empire is a subject, weirdly hidden from view.