The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

About this book

The Empire Strikes Back will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century Britains empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannias tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture Religion Health Sexuality Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. The Empire Strikes Back shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back affecting in turn England itself.