Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World

Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire,...
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Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World by Kwarteng, Kwasi

Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World

$257.21

Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World

$257.21
Author: Kwasi Kwarteng
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by a cast of characters as outsized and eccentric as anything conjured by Gilbert and Sullivan.

The truth, as Kwarteng reveals, is that there was no such thing as a model for imperial administration; instead, appointees were schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. As a result the Empire was the product not of a grand idea but of often chaotic individual improvisation. The idosyncracies of viceroys and soldier-diplomats who ran the colonial enterprise continues to impact the world, from Kashmir to Sudan, Baghdad to Hong Kong.



Author: Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 05/01/2013
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781610392327


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/21/2013 pg. 24

About the Author
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London in 1975. He earned a PhD in History from Cambridge University in 2000. Kwasi was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in 2010 and sat on the House of Commons Transport Select Committee from 2010 to 2013; he currently sits on the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in the UK and PublicAffairs in US in August, 2011. His second book, War and Gold, was published in May, 2014.

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