- Colonies, Decolonization, History, Great britain, colonies, history
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.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 488
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781280588136
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