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Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World

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Kwasi Kwarteng is the kid of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first of their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique standpoint and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one who avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and as a substitute sees the Empire for what it was once: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by a cast of characters as outsized and eccentric as anything conjured by Gilbert and Sullivan.

The truth, as Kwarteng reveals, is that there was once no such thing as a model for imperial administration; as a substitute, appointees were schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. Consequently the Empire was once the product not of a grand idea but of steadily chaotic individual improvisation. The idosyncracies of viceroys and soldier-diplomats who ran the colonial enterprise continues to affect the arena, from Kashmir to Sudan, Baghdad to Hong Kong.

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