Uncommon wealth : Britain and the aftermath of empire / Kojo Koram.
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781529338645
- Decolonization -- Great Britain -- Colonies
- Décolonisation -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies
- Economic history
- British colonies
- Decolonization -- British colonies
- Diplomatic relations
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Economic conditions
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations
- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire
- Grande-Bretagne -- Relations extérieures
- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Conditions économiques
- Great Britain
- 325/.341 23
- DA16 .K68 2023
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | National Defence College (NDC) Library | DA16 .K68 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 10016/24 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-284) and index.
Introduction: seeing the boomerang -- The state -- The company -- The border -- The debt -- The tax -- The city -- Conclusion: there is an alternative.
"Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britain's former territories in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were trapped in poverty. However, the reinforcement of capitalist power across the world also ricocheted back home. Now it has left many Britons wondering where their own sovereignty and prosperity has gone... Decolonisation was not just a trendy buzzword. It was one of the great global changes of the past hundred years, yet Britain - the protagonist in the whole, messy drama - has forgotten it was ever even there. A blistering uncovering of the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire, Uncommon Wealth shows the decisions of decades past are contributing to the forces that are breaking Britain today"--Publisher's description.
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