Colonialism
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The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial
record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989,
many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that
the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.
Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of
Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the
liberal West faces major threats. These threats are not only
external. Especially in the Anglosphere, the ‘decolonisation’
movement corrodes the West’s self-confidence by retelling the
history of European and American colonial dominance as a litany of
racism, exploitation, and massively murderous violence. Nigel
Biggar tests this indictment, addressing the crucial questions in
eight chapters: Was the British Empire driven primarily by greed
and the lust to dominate? Should we speak of ‘colonialism and
slavery’ in the same breath, as if they were identical? Was the
Empire essentially racist? How far was it based on the theft of
land? Did it involve genocide? Was it driven fundamentally by the
motive of economic exploitation? Was undemocratic colonial
government necessarily illegitimate? and, Was the Empire
essentially violent, and its violence pervasively racist and
terroristic? Biggar makes clear that, like any other long-standing
state, the British Empire involved elements of injustice, sometimes
appalling. On occasions it was culpably incompetent and presided
over moments of dreadful tragedy. Nevertheless, from the early
1800s the Empire was committed to abolishing the slave trade in the
name of a Christian conviction of the basic equality of all human
beings. It ended endemic inter-tribal warfare, opened local
economies to the opportunities of global trade, moderated the
impact of inescapable modernisation, established the rule of law
and liberal institutions such as a free press, and spent itself in
defeating the murderously racist Nazi and Japanese empires in the
Second World War. As encyclopaedic in historical breadth as it is
penetrating in analytical depth, Colonialism offers a moral inquest
into the colonial past, forensically contesting damaging falsehoods
and thereby helping to rejuvenate faith in the West’s future. Nigel
Biggar's book 'Colonialism' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c
13-02-2023.
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Nigel Biggar
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Nigel Biggar
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