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04227aam a2200589 i 4500 001 AAB8EC0AAFEE11EC9092402E4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220330010013 008 210613s2022 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021018550 020 $a 0307272427 020 $a 9780307272423 035 $a (OCoLC)1246727086 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YXF $d ZGX $d OCLCO $d HBP $d RNL $d UAP $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 082 00 $a 909/.0971241082 $2 23 100 1 $a Elkins, Caroline, $e author. 245 10 $a Legacy of violence : $b a history of the British empire / $c Caroline Elkins. 246 30 $a History of the British empire 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2022. 300 $a x, 875 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 779-828) and index. 505 0 $a Liberal imperialism -- Wars small and great -- Legalized lawlessness -- "I'm merely pro-British" -- Imperial convergence -- An imperial war -- A war of ideas -- Partnership -- Imperial resurgence -- Glass houses -- Exit Palestine, enter Malaya -- Small places, close to home -- Systematized violence -- Operation legacy -- Epilogue. Empire comes home. 520 $a "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering 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 the nation's imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant "natives," and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today." -- Amazon.com. 520 $a "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a State-sponsored terrorism $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Punishment $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Imperialism. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $x Administration $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social conditions. $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 941 $a 14 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710060409.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025013230.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012014402.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031742.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100319.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230616010121.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230404014732.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20230301010857.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20221008011657.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20220702010418.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220507010342.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220412014608.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220405013935.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220330010045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AAB8EC0AAFEE11EC9092402E4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search