Title:
Ghosts of empire : Britain's legacies in the modern world / Kwasi Kwarteng.
Author:
Kwarteng, Kwasi, author.
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, [2011]
©2011
Call Number:
DA16 .K93 2011B
Abstract:
Re-examines the messy legacy of the British Empire--grand, colorful, and chronically unstable due to haphazard, incoherent policy-making that went unchecked.
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Electronic Access:
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10532608Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35775
Edition:
First edition, [U.S. edition].
ISBN:
9781610391207
9781610391214
9781610392327
Physical Description:
466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011"--Title page verso.
Contents:
pt. 1. Iraq : oil and power. The spoils of war ; Rivals ; Monarchy and revolution ; Saddam Hussein and beyond -- pt. 2. Kashmir : Maharaja's choice. Land for sale ; The world of Sir Hari Singh ; Deadlock -- pt. 3. Burma : lost kingdom. White elephant ; The road from Mandalay ; Twilight over Burma -- pt. 4. Sudan : 'blacks and blues'. Kitchener : an imperial hero ; 'The finest body of men' ; North and south -- pt. 5. Nigeria : 'the centre cannot hold'. Indirect rule ; Yellow sun -- pt. 6. Hong Kong : money and democracy. Hierarchies ; Democracy postponed ; Red dawn.
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