Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia (English

Description: Time's Monster by Priya Satia CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Their narratives of the development of imperial governance licensed the brutal suppression of colonial rebellion. Their reimagining of empire during the two world wars compromised the force of decolonization. In this brilliant work, Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed. History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period, endowing historians from John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. 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. Times Monster reveals the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities and debates about reparations and the legacy of empire, Satia offers us a hugely important and urgent moral voice. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Priya Satia is the award-winning author of Spies in Arabia and Empire of Guns . The Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of British History at Stanford University, she has written for the Financial Times , The Nation , Washington Post , and other outlets. Review Text Much of the best scholarship today is Review Quote Much of the best scholarship today is Promotional "Headline" An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire Details ISBN0241464129 Author Priya Satia Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 0241464129 ISBN-13 9780241464120 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-10-20 Pages 384 Short Title Times Monster Language English Imprint Allen Lane Subtitle History, Conscience and Britains Empire Audience General/Trade DEWEY 941.0072 UK Release Date 2020-10-20 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-01-04 AU Release Date 2021-01-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133129615;

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