A review by spb3
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton

2.0

I really wanted to like this book. it has so much potential in terms of argument but it is just not well written. Page-long paragraphs and chapters that just don't end cloud good research and an obviously well-read author.

Perhaps Burton has a point that the trouble with British imperial histories is that they are not written with dissent and disruption in the lead. Yet, so long as a book is as inaccessible as this one, it doesn't really matter what is in the lead.