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acaciathorns's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I wish everyone in the UK would read this book. We cannot understand how to challenge power and bring about change without understanding the UK's role in global capital.
user129380's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Highlights the inadequacy of any understanding of the British Isles' economic and social history without an equivalent knowledge of the British Empire. The author does an excellent job of explaining the practices inherited by the Britain of the twentieth and twenty first century from the Empire, and dispels the myth of the 'island story' given as Britain's history today.
The book isn't comprehensive, which is understandable, it isn't possible to write a total account of the relationship between the modern and historical Britain in a single, relatively small volume. The topics that are included in the book are well chosen to help to demonstrate the relationship however, and inform the reader on some of the more pressing or discussed aspects. The author gives particular attention to the economic consequences and continuities that began with the British Empire, including the effect on Britain today.
Overall, it is an excellent and readable book, and a necessary corrective to the pernicious myth peddled about the British Empire and modern day Britain and the Overseas Territories.
The book isn't comprehensive, which is understandable, it isn't possible to write a total account of the relationship between the modern and historical Britain in a single, relatively small volume. The topics that are included in the book are well chosen to help to demonstrate the relationship however, and inform the reader on some of the more pressing or discussed aspects. The author gives particular attention to the economic consequences and continuities that began with the British Empire, including the effect on Britain today.
Overall, it is an excellent and readable book, and a necessary corrective to the pernicious myth peddled about the British Empire and modern day Britain and the Overseas Territories.