(PDF) Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng – 9780747599418

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Ghosts of Empire
Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
by Kwasi Kwarteng

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• Genres: history, politics, africa, india, asia
• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
• Awards: Lionel Gelber Prize Nominee (2013)
• Language: english
• First published: February 7, 2012
• Author: Kwasi Kwarteng
• Format: hardcover, 465 pages
• Release date: May 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9780747599418 (0747599416)

About The Book

The British Empire was the creation of a tremendous outpouring of energy and opportunism, when the British were at their most self-confident, and the wealth they gathered was prodigious. At its heart lay a sense of the rectitude of the British way of life, meted out to vast swathes of the rest of the world without let or hindrance. Yet, as this book shows, the empire was not formed by coherent policy, and its decline reflected this: its later years were characterised by a series of accidental oversights, decisions taken without due consideration for the consequences, and uncertain pragmatism. Many of the world’s trouble spots are those left behind by the chaotic retreat of empire, and its ghosts continue to haunt today’s international scene. The problems the empire encountered have still not been resolved and in Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong new difficulties have arisen which continue to baffle politicians and diplomats. This powerful new book addresses the realities of the British Empire from its inception to its demise, questioning the nature of its glory and cataloguing both the inadequacies of its ideals and the short-termism of its actions.

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