- State-sponsored terrorism, History, Punishment, Liberalism
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country’s pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe
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Grave, earnest, epic and plot-driven.
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- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Caroline Elkins
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 752
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print, Penguin Random House, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593460375
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