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Koram Kojo - Uncommon Wealth Britain And The Aftermath Of Empire - Paperback
Koram Kojo - Uncommon Wealth Britain And The Aftermath Of Empire - Paperback
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Description: Winner OF THE PEN Hessell - Tiltman Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights Akala A radical beautifully written understanding of our history Owen Jones You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it Frankie Boyle A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past or it will come back to bite you Grace Blakeley This book should be part of the national curriculum Ellie Mae O Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non - white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe profiting in colonial Africa Asia and the Caribbean. However the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore Ghana to Britain this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today.
Title: Uncommon Wealth Britain And The Aftermath Of Empire
Author(s): Koram Kojo
Publisher: John Murray Press
Barcode: 9781529338645
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/13/2023
Category: Nationalism
Description: Winner OF THE PEN Hessell - Tiltman Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights Akala A radical beautifully written understanding of our history Owen Jones You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it Frankie Boyle A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past or it will come back to bite you Grace Blakeley This book should be part of the national curriculum Ellie Mae O Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non - white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe profiting in colonial Africa Asia and the Caribbean. However the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore Ghana to Britain this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today.
Title: Uncommon Wealth Britain And The Aftermath Of Empire
Author(s): Koram Kojo
Publisher: John Murray Press
Barcode: 9781529338645
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/13/2023
Category: Nationalism