The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire

✍ Scribed by Newsinger, John

• Book ID: 109891470
• Publisher: Bookmarks
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 333 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1905192126

✦ Synopsis

Newsinger challenges the claim that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler empire and suggests that the description 'rogue state' is more fitting. In a wonderful popular history of key episodes in British imperial history, he illustrates the darker side of the glory years - Britain's deep involvement in the Chinese opium trade; Gladstone's maiden parliamentary speech defending his family's slave plantation in Jamaica paying particular attention to the strenuous efforts of the colonised to free themselves of the motherland's baleful rule.