John Darwin: Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
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- Kustantaja: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781620400388
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John Darwin's 'After Tamerlane, ' a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of 'massive erudition' (the 'Guardian') and narrative mastery. In 'Unfinished Empire, ' he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative and compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. It was hailed as one of the 10 best books of 2013 by Jonathan Yardley of 'The Washington Pos't. Darwin's penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand 'civilizing mission. ' Far from ever having a 'master plan, ' the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. 'Unfinished Empire' is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways military and cultural in which empires really function. '