The America That I Didn`t Know Existed: Immigrant Experience in American Education, Kwarteng Francis

Автор: Kwarteng Kwasi
Название: Ghosts of Empire: Britain`s Legacies in the Modern World
ISBN: 1610392329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610392327
Издательство: Little Brown
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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.

Автор: Kwarteng Ntiamoah James
Название: Plugging Into God for Service: A Prayer Manual
ISBN: 0989473503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989473507
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Автор: Kwarteng Kwasi
Название: Thatcher`s Trial: 180 Days That Created a Conservative Icon
ISBN: 161039562X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610395625
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Описание: In six months, Margaret Thatcher reinvented her political party and redefined modern conservatism in one of the greatest feats of modern political leadership.
In 1981, less than two years after she had been elected as Britain s first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher was deemed unpopular and out of touch. Unemployment had risen to levels not seen since the 1930s, and the state s finances were foundering. Her chancellor of the exchequer delivered what became known as the no hope budget in March, which marked the beginning of a period of an almost unprecedentedly broad range of political challenges: hunger strikes and violent protests in Northern Ireland, urban riots in London and Liverpool, and visible discontent with Thatcher from within the Conservative Party.
And yet by September 14, when Thatcher sacked 4 mutinous grandees from her cabinet, the prime minister had firmly reasserted her authority. These extraordinary six months would come to define the Conservative Party s most successful and modern leader, who reshaped the ideas and direction of conservatism around the world. To her detractors she may have been a harsh, uncaring and dogmatic leader who made the country a more unequal, materialistic and brutal place, but to her supporters, she was nothing less than a Conservative savior who prevented Britain from becoming an ungovernable socialist state. The 1983 general election would prove a triumph.
Kwasi Kwarteng intimately captures this shopkeeper s daughter s unique leadership qualitiesfrom her pulpit-style and New Testament imagery to her emphasis on personal moral responsibilitythat saw her through some of the most adverse conditions facing any world leader in modern peacetime."