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Aug 16, 2021 · Empires have never been a force for good. They are built on competition for resources among elites and the exploitation of an underclass. Not only are ‘ends’ said to justify the means, empires also rationalise their actions by claiming access either to supernatural sanctioning or to some higher morality.
- Mark Gover
However, the empire's reach also included exploitation, violence, and the suppression of traditional societies in its pursuit of wealth and power. So, the question is often asked: was the British Empire a force for good, a perpetrator of injustice, or a complex combination of both?
The British Empire was the only belligerent to fight the entirety of the Second World War. From the last man standing against Nazi tyranny in 1940 to facing the fiery death of Imperial Japan in 1945, the empire was a vital cog in the Allied war machine.
Being forced to accept someone else’s beliefs is not a good thing. This happens a lot when empires grow. In the British Empire it happened with indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand, as two examples. It also happened inside the British Isles.
Mar 28, 2022 · More than half a century after the British Empire entered its endgame, historians are nowhere near a full assessment of the carnage shrouded by its preacherly cant, and, later, by administrators...
Empires are not always evil — but some undoubtedly are. Given that we are now confronted by an unashamedly imperial power, it may be as well to know one’s enemy. What we are witnessing in Xi Jinping’s China is a phenomenon less familiar to us in our own politics than from science fiction.
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Jan 25, 2024 · In our febrile post-imperial, post-Brexit climate of culture wars, the legacy of empire seems to have touched something deep and troubling in our fragmented national psyche — or, as Sanghera ...
