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The Empire at Home: Internal Colonies and the End of Britain by James Trafford

paulataua's review against another edition

4.0

There seem to be quite a few recent publications arguing that the methods and structures found in our past colonization are being deployed in modern Britain in a sort of internal colonization— Kehinde Andrews’ ‘The New Age of Empire’, Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain’ and this one. I get it, and have to say that this is really worth reading as I guess are the other two. The overarching claim, however, comes as no surprise given that we seem to have evolved so little from the nationalistic, racist people of the colonial era who believed in their own superiority and believed that other races were less than human. It makes you cry, doesn’t it? Or at least it should do.