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The Blood Never Dried

A People's History of the British Empire

ISBN-13: 9781909026223

Contributor(s): John Newsinger

Subjects: Politics & Government

Publisher: Bookmarks

Publisher Imprint: Bookmarks E Books

Publication Date: 07-01-2013

Format: Mobipocket

Availability: In stock

£8.00

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About the book

Newsinger challenges the claim that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler empire and suggests that the description 'rogue state' is more fitting. In a wonderful popular history of key episodes in British imperial history, he illustrates the darker side of the glory years - Britain's deep involvement in the Chinese opium trade; Gladstone's maiden parliamentary speech defending his family's slave plantation in Jamaica - paying particular attention to the strenuous efforts of the colonised to free themselves of the motherland's baleful rule.

The Blood Never Dried

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