Imperial island : an alternative history of the British Empire

Imperial island : an alternative history of the British Empire / Charlotte Lydia Riley.

Author/creator	Riley, Charlotte Lydia author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
Description	pages cm
Subject(s)	Imperialism--History --20th century. Imperialism--History --21st century. Racism--Great Britain --History --20th century. Racism--Great Britain --History --21st century. Great Britain--History --20th century. Great Britain--History --21st century. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration --History --20th century. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration --History --21st century. Great Britain--Colonies --History --20th century. Great Britain--Colonies --History --21st century. Great Britain--Politics and government --1945- Great Britain--Social conditions --1945-

Portion of title	Alternative history of the British Empire
Contents	Empire's Shadows -- Home and Away in the Second World War -- The People's Peace: The Attlee Government, 1945-1951 -- Never Had It So Good? Britain in the 1950s -- Losing an Empire: Decolonization, 1950s-1960s -- No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish: Migration and Racism in the 1960s and 1970s -- Britain's Troubled Conscience: Empire, War, and Famine -- From Cool Britannia to Brexit Britain: Imperialism since the 1990s -- Where We're Going, We Don't Need Rhodes.
Abstract	"After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today."-- Provided by publisher.
General note	First published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head, 2023, with subtitle: a history of empire in modern Britain.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2023035212
ISBN	9780674258495
ISBN	0674258495

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