Table of Contents

Introduction Hybridity Riding the Beast Imperialisms, Left and Right In the Field How it Happened. Broadly. The Empire at Home The Beginning of the End Legacies Conclusions Endnotes and Bibliography

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Major new book from leading historian of British Empire.

About the Author

Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle. He has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Hull, Yale, Sydney, Stockholm and Copenhagen. He has published ten books before this one, many of them on imperial themes, including Critics of Empire, The Lion's Share and The Absent-Minded Imperialists. He also contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and other journals.