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A review by strugk
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
I picked up the book after an interesting interview with the author. The premise was interesting, the author knowledgeable and interesting.
The book itself however lacks structure and discipline. It lists hundreds of historic facts and for most of them a few interpretations but it is lost on me why. It's an essay full of interesting observations, especially on how 18th and 19th-century events shaped the 20th century.
There is very little on what does that mean for the first two decades of the 21st century and what we can do to make the country better in the remaining decades of this century.
The book itself however lacks structure and discipline. It lists hundreds of historic facts and for most of them a few interpretations but it is lost on me why. It's an essay full of interesting observations, especially on how 18th and 19th-century events shaped the 20th century.
There is very little on what does that mean for the first two decades of the 21st century and what we can do to make the country better in the remaining decades of this century.