At a time of great division, when we are arguing about what it means to be British, Sanghera’s book urges us to address this bewildering contradiction. However, even among those who celebrate the empire there seems to be a desire not to look at it too closely – not to include the subject in our school history books, not to emphasize it too much in our favourite museums. It is, as Sanghera reveals, fundamental to understanding Britain. The British Empire ran for centuries and covered vast swathes of the world.
And yet empire is a subject, weirdly hidden from view. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how our past is everywhere: from how we live to how we think, from the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism, from our distrust of intellectuals in public life to the exceptionalism that imbued the campaign for Brexit and the government’s early response to the Covid crisis. In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. You can read this before Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain written by Sathnam Sanghera which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
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