The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

by Antoinette Burton

Book Overview

The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes of imperial security worked in practice. This emphasis on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190858559
• ISBN13: 9780190858551
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"