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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Elkins, Caroline.     Subjects     State-sponsored terrorism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Imperialism.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Elkins, Caroline.       by title:      Legacy of violence :...       by call number:      909.0971241 E43L     Search the Web     Elkins, Caroline.     State-sponsored terrorism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Imperialism.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Legacy of violence : a history of the British empire / Caroline Elkins. by Elkins, Caroline. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Call #: 909.0971241 E43L Subjects State-sponsored terrorism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.   Punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.   Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.   Imperialism.   Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century.   Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions.   Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780307272423 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  x, 875 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf" -- T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation's imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant 'natives,' and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, 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 Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today."--Publisher. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 909.0971241 E43L Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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