{"product_id":"legacy-of-violence-a-history-of-the-british-empire-paperback","title":"Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Elkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority. But what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation's imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant \"natives,\" and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, \u003ci\u003eLegacy of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e implicates all sides of Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAROLINE ELKINS is professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard's Center for African Studies. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e and BBC's \u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Watertown and Marion, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 896\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53468628156723,"sku":"9780307473493","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/legacy-of-violence-a-history-of-the-british-empire-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}