A Cultural History of the British Empire
The empire understood through what it exported and absorbed rather than through what it governed.
John M. MacKenzie examines the British empire as a cultural system: the images, exhibitions, migrations, sport, science and consumption that moved in both directions. It doubles as a history of early globalisation, and is strongest on the ways the imperial relationship reshaped Britain itself and not only the colonies.
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Tyler Cowen
John A. Mackenzie, A Cultural History of the British Empire. A very good book on both a) early globalization, and b) actually understanding the British empire. I hadn’t known that during the 1930s and 40s, maximum years of resistance to the British empire, cricket tournaments largely were abandoned.
Source · March 2023
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