The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism

2025/06/07 by Richard Scully · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Australian History and Society #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2514042

Abstract

One wonders what all the fuss is about, really … Alan Lester’s collaboration with Sathnam Sanghera and 14 other scholars, to produce a volume of such diversity and lucidity should certainly be hail...

Citations

• The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Discussions

• Check out Richard Scully's review of 'The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism' by Alan Lester (ed.), C. Hurst & Co. (2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308... [bsky, 12 points, 0 comments]

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