Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins Collection_Coronation Sanghera puts to bed the

Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad

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He returned in 1660 as Britain's new King when the monarchy was restored albeit with fewer privileges than they had before the Civil War

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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins Collection_Coronation Sanghera puts to bed theA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Caroline Elkins reveals the dark heart of Britain's Empire: a racialised, systemised doctrine of unrelenting violence, which it used to secure and maintain its interests across the globe. When Britain could no longer maintain control over that violence, it simply