Kwarteng Kwasi: Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The British Empire was the creation of a tremendous outpouring of energy and opportunism, when the British were at their most self-confident, and the wealth they gathered was prodigious. At its heart lay a sense of the rectitude of the British way of life, meted out to vast swathes of the rest of the world without let or hindrance. Yet, as this book shows, the empire was not formed by coherent…