DESCRIPTION : 'BRILLIANTLY ARRANGED AND RICH WITH FRESH INSIGHTS, UNCOMMON WEALTH REMINDS US HOW THE FORGOTTEN STORIES OF EMPIRE AND DECOLONISATION CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES IN BRITAIN - AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - UP TO TODAY' AKALA'A RADICAL, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR HISTORY - INGENIOUSLY PLACING BRITAIN'S RECENT TUMULT INTO CONTEXT' - OWEN JONESBritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britain's former territories in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were trapped in poverty. However, the reinforcement of capitalist power across the world also ricocheted back home. Now it has left many Britons wondering where their own sovereignty and prosperity has gone...Decolonisation was not just a trendy buzzword. It was one of the great global changes of the past hundred years, yet Britain - the protagonist in the whole, messy drama - has forgotten it was ever even there. A blistering uncovering of the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire, Uncommon Wealth shows the decisions of decades past are contributing to the forces that are breaking Britain today. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781529338638 BY (AUTHOR) Koram, Kojo PUBLISHER : John Murray Press PUBLICATION DATE : February 17, 2022 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : John Murray Publishers Ltd LANGUAGE : English AGE : Tertiary Education PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 232 mm x 152 mm WEIGHT : 380 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Society & Social Sciences
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