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99/100Author:
Sathnam Sanghera, Marlon James
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
February 28, 2023
Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in its imperial past. Sanghera shows how the past is everywhere in the United Kingdom, also drawing critical links to similarities in the United States and around the world.
What The Reviewers Say
[An] impassioned and deeply personal journey through Britain’s imperial past and present.
In this excellent book, the Times writer Sathnam Sanghera tries to understand why the modern British display such amnesia about their forebears’ vast, world-changing project.
American readers will find much that’s familiar in the account that follows, in which the author probes Britain’s imperial history to find its present-day influences.
