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British Empire
March 1, 2024
Alexander Zaitchik
Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
His new book,
Smoke and Ashes
, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present.
March 28, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The New
Great Expectations
Is Very Rude
In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.
December 17, 2019
Magazine
Patrick Iber
The World
The Economist
Made
How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism
January 8, 2019
Ryu Spaeth
The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons.
November 9, 2018
Priya Satia
Are 100 Years Enough?
The close of World War I was supposed to end the world’s reliance on arms—and empire. But on the centenary, the Middle East offers proof that this hasn’t happened.
August 2, 2018
Rafia Zakaria
If You Weren’t Here Before 1971, You’re Not a Citizen
A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.
August 24, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The British Museum Was Built on Coral, Butterflies, and Slavery
A new biography of the prolific collector Hans Sloane sheds light on the institution’s deep complicity with imperialism and plantation money.
March 1, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Britain is acting like the 100 Years War never ended.
June 10, 2013
Maya Jasanoff
Hearts of Darkness
The incoherence of the British Empire
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