{"product_id":"legacy-of-violence-caroline-elkins-9781847921062","title":"Legacy of Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian- a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe.            \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSprawling across a quarter  of the world's land mass and claiming nearly 500 colonial subjects, Britain's empire  was the largest empire in human history. For many, it epitomized our nation's  cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world? \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eSpanning more than two  hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals evolutionary and racialized  doctrines that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and  preserve British imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations  of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing indigenous peoples  who resisted subjugation, and how over time, this treatment became increasingly  institutionalized. Elkins reveals how, when violence could no longer be  controlled, Britain retreated from its empire, whilst destroying and hiding  incriminating evidence of its policies and practices.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on more than a  decade of research on four continents, Legacy  of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the  creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how  and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting both the empire and British  imperial identity, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on  empire's role in shaping the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Elkins","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43174452068595,"sku":"9781847921062","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781847921062.jpg?v=1662065062","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/legacy-of-violence-caroline-elkins-9781847921062","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}