Legacy of Violence
Legacy of Violence From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how…
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Legacy of Violence
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. But what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority.
She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation's imperial interests.
Legacy of Violence
Spaces of Violence
Color of Violence
Architectures of Violence
Man of Violence
Anatomy of Violence
Act of Violence
History of Violence
Legacy of Division
Legacy of Death
Legacy of Death