As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. Richard Gott recounts the Britain's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence. Recounting events from the perspective of the colonized, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream British histories.

A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.

About the Author
Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian. A specialist in Latin American affairs, his books include Cuba: A New History, Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, The Appeasers (with Martin Gilbert), Land Without Evil, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, and Britain's Empire. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the institute for the study of the Americas at the University of London.

Reviews
Vivid and startling ... Gott's achievement is to show, as no historian has done before, that violence was a central, constant and ubiquitous part of the making and keeping of the British Empire * Guardian *
His message is stark but Gott is never shrill. He writes as a scholar, not an accuser. * Red Pepper *
A tour de force. * History Today *
A welcome, even necessary, corrective. * the Independent *
Stimulating, inspirational and much needed. * Morning Star *
Pungent and provocative ... a rich compendium of revolt * Scotland on Sunday *



Book Information
ISBN 9781839764226
Author Richard Gott
Format Paperback
Page Count 576
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 529g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 37mm