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Legacy of Violence
- A History of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe.
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly 500 colonial subjects, Britain's empire was the largest empire in human history. For many, it epitomised our nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world?
Spanning more than 200 years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals evolutionary and racialised doctrines that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing Indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation and how over time, this treatment became increasingly institutionalised. Elkins reveals how, when violence could no longer be controlled, Britain retreated from its empire, whilst destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices.
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the creation, execution and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting both the empire and British imperial identity, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.
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- sandyqbg
- 13-06-22
Long read but detailed and illuminating
Caroline Elkin's account of how the British Empire increasingly legalized lawlessness and used double think to build and hold on to its empire is illuminating. It draws upon a large body of research and documentation to paint a very detailed and shocking picture of the brutality of the British Empire, while highlighting the measures it took to legitimize and market its use of violence as a necessity for the colonial subjects' own good.
She has gone into a great deal of detail - she used anecdotes and the specifics of correspondences - to drive home the measures that British government officially and unofficially employed and the debilitating impact it had on the economic and social fabric of the colonies it governed. However, the level of detail also makes it a long read and the author could have made the same impact in a more succinct manner.
Adam Burr's voice over draws you in and does a great job keeping you hooked to the narrative in spite of its length.
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