Ten Cities that Made an Empire
Book description
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it
Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's…
Why read it?
1 author picked Ten Cities that Made an Empire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As an unwitting child of the British Empire, I have, as the modern phrase goes, some lived experience of it.
Much that is written about it has its basis in ideology: empire was glorious; or colonialism is the devil’s work. This book uses ten cities of Empire to search out its on-the-ground history. It is marvelously absorbing and free of cliche, jingoism, or bias. It is fluently written and led me to see these iconic cities in a new light.
From John's list on British history beyond cliche, ideology, and spin.
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