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

4.0

A thought-provoking volume on the needs of imperial history to move beyond the whiggish long narrative arc of British imperialism that dominates the historiography currently. There is a thesis, one that bears further examining, but this book is primarily a call for further scholarship and for, the way Burton phrases it, a paradigm shift, illustrated with copious examples from primary and secondary sources.