{"product_id":"legacy-of-violence-a-history-of-the-british-empire","title":"Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire","description":"**Shortlisted for the\nBaillie Gifford Prize 2022**\n\n**A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY and HISTORY EXTRA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**\n\n'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind\n\nA\nsearing, landmark\nstudy of the British Empire that\nlays bare\nits\npervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.\n\nSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human history. For many, it epitomized the nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world?\n\nSpanning more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation, and how over time this treatment became increasingly systematised. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, Britain retreated from its empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices.\n\nDrawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting both the empire and British imperial identity, Elkins explodes long-held myths and sheds a disturbing new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 184792106X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.184792106X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Elkins, Caroline\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43331995041853,"sku":"BVV.184792106X.A","price":23.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/184792106X-0.jpg?v=1783569879","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/legacy-of-violence-a-history-of-the-british-empire","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}