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Time's monster : how history makes history
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ISBN: 9780674248373 0674248376 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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"For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed. As they reimagined empire during the two world wars, decolonization was compromised. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed. Satia makes clear that historical imagination played a significant role in the unfolding of empire. History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period, endowing historians from John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. At key moments in Satia's telling, we find Britons warding off guilty conscience by recourse to particular notions of history, especially those that spotlighted great men helpless before the will of Providence. Braided with this story is an account of alternative visions articulated by anticolonial thinkers such as William Blake, Mahatma Gandhi, and E. P. Thompson. By the mid-twentieth century, their approaches had reshaped the discipline of history and the ethics that came with it. Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice."


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Empire of guns : the violent making of the industrial revolution
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ISBN: 1503610489 9781503610484 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York: Penguin press,

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"This ambitious book reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade"-- Provided by publisher.


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Spies in Arabia : the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain's covert empire in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780199734801 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Time's monster : history, conscience and Britain's empire
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ISBN: 9780241464120 Year: 2020 Publisher: [London] Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books

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For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed. As they reimagined empire during the two World Wars, decolonization was compromised. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed.

Spies in Arabia : the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain's covert empire in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780195331417 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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Asia Inside Out
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ISBN: 9780674286320 0674286324 9780674967687 0674967682 0674286340 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world’s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.


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Asia Inside Out : Connected Places
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ISBN: 9780674286320 9780674967687 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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