blog! “Book Review: Empireland - How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera”
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After reading Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire I was keen to read more about my country's history. It's weird that studying history in the UK consists of the Tudors, Shakespeare, the Industrial Revolution, and the World Wars. …
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@Edent I'd like to learn more about this too, which of the two was the easier read, seems like Empireland?
@joelanman
Yes, written in a colloquial tone.
@Edent highly recommend William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy in this vein.
@luis_in_brief I'll stick it on my increasingly long reading list!