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Books : The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by: Piers Brendon List Price: £9.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.99 You Save: £3.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780712668460 ISBN: 0712668462 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: October 02, 2008 Publisher: Vintage Studio: Vintage Sales Rank: 8526 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - AmbitiousThis is an ambitious attempt to chronicle the rise and fall of the British Empire. And it is by no mean flawless. Still, the book's "unromaticising" of the Empire must not be taken too personally by some of the reviewers here. There is no victimisation - considered the looting the Empire has inflicted on its colonial subjects. This book is one of course readings at the LSE (not the bourse). And it is an eye-opener. I would also suggest "Merchants to multinationals : British trading companies in the nieteenth and twentieth centuries" by Geoffrey Jones, which explains more about the political economic impacts of the British Empire. Rating: - Absorbing. Balanced and an excellent true yarn.Im still reading this, It gives a considered and riveting tale of my Countrys History. Keep an open mind, fantastic achievements by towering figures, they were Empire builders and Empire spoilers, working to the values and ethics of their times. Reads like an action packed novel. Well done ancestors and well done this author. Rating: - ExcellentAbsorbing and comprehensive account of the decline of the British Empire. No library should be without it. Rating:  - The Decline, Fall and Condemnation of the British EmpirePiers Brendon has certainly put an awful lot of scholarship, time and effort into this weighty, well-written, near-humourless deconstruction of a large section of British history, but unfortunately this feels like the work of a sniggering little modern mind. It has been the fashion for some time now ('political correctness' is such a boring cliche) to pull apart, criticize and pour scorn on so much of Britain's past and and so many of its heroes. Mr Brendon leaves no stone unthrown. I see the newspaper reviewers all give it the nod of approval - what a lot of sheep! His next book might well be subtitled, The Victims of the British Empire. One just wonders where the money came from to finance this acidic view of Britain's withdrawal from overstretched ... Read More: |
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