Uncommon Wealth. Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley 'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae O'Hagan Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has…

Издательство

Hachette UK

Год

2022

Страниц

283

Язык

английский

ISBN

9781529338652