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“... 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 ...”

“... but you can choose the slant: Niall Ferguson’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World or Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. Ferguson and Sanghera really are writing about how one big thing made another, but most authors of ‘X and the making’ books are ...”