Ghosts of Empire: Britain`s Legacies in the Modern World 9781610392327

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Автор: Kwarteng Kwasi (Квартенг Кваси)
Название: Ghosts of Empire: Britain`s Legacies in the Modern World
Перевод названия: Квартенг Кваси: Призраки империи. Наследие Британии в современном мире
ISBN: 9781610392327
Издательство: Little Brown
Издательство: PublicAffairs
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1610392329
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 488
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 28.05.2013
Язык: English
Размер: 224 x 145 x 33
Поставляется из: США
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Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by a cast of characters as outsized and eccentric as anything conjured by Gilbert and Sullivan.

The truth, as Kwarteng reveals, is that there was no such thing as a model for imperial administration; instead, appointees were schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. As a result the Empire was the product not of a grand idea but of often chaotic individual improvisation. The idosyncracies of viceroys and soldier-diplomats who ran the colonial enterprise continues to impact the world, from Kashmir to Sudan, Baghdad to Hong Kong.

Ghosts of Empire: Britain`s Legacies in the Modern World, Kwarteng Kwasi