Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Chaos of Empire
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India | Jon Wilson
2 posts
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
brilliantglow
post image
Johanna414 Can‘t wait to see what you got! 5y
brilliantglow @Johanna414 posted now! 😃 5y
TheSpineView Wow! Now that is what I call a book haul! 😊😊 5y
See All 6 Comments
Rachel.Rencher 😱😱 That's a beautiful sight! 5y
brilliantglow @TheSpineView @Rachel.Rencher I may have gotten a little carried away lol 5y
TheSpineView @brilliantglow No worries... you are amongst people who get it!📚📚📚 5y
52 likes6 comments
blurb
brilliantglow
post image

More #bookmail 😃😃 this time featuring some history, some fantasy and a couple more graphic novels