Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were…
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Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. In addition, a pivotal role in fomenting resistance was played by anticolonial campaigners based in London, right at the heart of empire.Much has been written on how colonized peoples took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom.Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies, from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India.
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