Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation
Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian. A specialist in Latin American affairs, his books include Cuba: A New History, Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, The Appeasers (with Martin Gilbert), Land Without Evil, Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, and Britain's Empire. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the institute for the study of the Americas at the University of London.
A welcome, even necessary, corrective.
*Independent*
A pungent and provocative book ... a rich compendium of revolt.
*Scotland on Sunday*
Richard's book is a relentless chronicle of resistance to British
rule and the brutality with which that resistance was
suppressed.
*Socialist Worker*
A salutary counterblast and a goodbye to all that Niall Ferguson
and his ilk would like to establish as the official history to be
taught in British schools.
*Irish Left Review*
Throughout its history the British Empire was drenched in blood.
Gott's book makes an indispensable contribution towards
establishing this truth.
*Socialist Review*
Gott's achievement is to show, as no historian has done before,
that violence was a central, constant and ubiquitous part of the
making and keeping of the British empire.
*Guardian*
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