Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent AUTH-540202 ISBN10: 1119437946

ISBN10: 1119437946

Ken Pasternak

Maps of regions and locales

he pays the premium on his life insurance policy and joins the French Foreign Legion destined to Africa

placing flowers at gravesites

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent AUTH-540202 ISBN10: 1119437946How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies, from the West