Tristram Hunt
Ten Cities that Made an Empire
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141047782
- author:
- Tristram Hunt
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 544
- Dimensions:
- 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.7 cm
- Genre:
- History, World History,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Tristram Hunt's Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a fresh approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. By examining the great colonial and imperial cities of Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool, Hunt portrays their architecture, culture, and society in vivid detail. Through first-hand accounts and personal reflections, Hunt explores the processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively moulded the colonial experience. He reveals the complex history of famines, uprisings, and repressions that coursed through these cities, as well as the primitive accumulation and ghostly bureaucracy that ran them. This richly detailed imperial story allows for a new understanding of the British Empire's influence upon the world and the world's influence upon it. By tracing the paths of exchange and adaptation across ten key cities, Hunt sheds new light on the complex legacy of the British Empire.
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