Empireland

Gets a bit repetitive, and contradicts itself in places, which is disappointing given the importance of the theme for our post-Brexit future

Gets a bit repetitive, and contradicts itself in places, which is disappointing given the importance of the theme for our post-Brexit future. I stopped reading part way through.

As far as it goes it is absorbing, and illuminating, the book is full of anecdotes about the history of Empire, and it goes some way to reassessing the legacy of Empire, but it becomes repetitive, and pulls away sometimes from drawing the conclusions that seem to stand out from the stories he tells. In the end though he shows that imperialism has clearly shaped modern Britain, he doesnt really go deep enough into How it did/does that.

Gets a bit repetitive, and contradicts itself in places, which is disappointing given the importance of the theme for our post-Brexit future. I stopped reading part way through.

Some really fascinating points in this book but it works more as a collection of stories and facts than as a while work. The way Sanghera had collected all these points into a single place is fantastic research, but I sometimes felt adrift from an overall argument helping to make more sense of it.