The Chinese in Britain
August 5, 2013
In The Great Gatsby (1926), obscenely rich philistine Tom Buchanan obsesses over the latest racial theories, not least a book entitled The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by “this man Goddard.” This was a thinly-disguised reference to a popular work of 1920, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy by the American writer …
Britain’s Cold War in the Caribbean
May 30, 2013
Some historians such as the bullish right-wing TV pundit Niall Ferguson have tried to celebrate the British Empire as a kind of civilising mission and a genuinely co-operative endeavour between coloniser and colonised. Britain’s imperium, they suggest, should be a model for the current troubled nation-building efforts of the USA. It might be thought that …
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