It hurts, but it’s holy
Neal Ascherson: Consequences of Empire, 23 May 2024
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
by Sathnam Sanghera.
Viking, 449 pp., £20, January,978 0 241 60041 2 Show More
by Sathnam Sanghera.
Viking, 449 pp., £20, January,
“... It finally expired in 1963.The relevance of those two memories is that they underline a point Sathnam Sanghera keeps making in Empireworld. At the outset, he warns against the ‘balance-sheet’ approach: was the empire on balance a good thing or a bad one? That way, he writes, one gets ‘dragged … into an enervating culture war’ that ... ”
