Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning Nigel Biggar William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Sunday Times Bestseller A New Assessment Of West’s Colonial Record In Wake Dissolution Soviet Empire 1989 Many Believed That We Had Arrived At ‘End History’ – Global Dominance Liberal Democracy Been Secured Forever Now However With Russia Rattling Its Sabre On Borders Europe And China Rising To Challenge Post-1945 World Order West Faces Major Threats These Are Not Only External Especially Anglosphere ‘Decolonisation’ Movement Corrodes Self-Confidence By Retelling History European American As Litany Racism Exploitation Massively Murderous Violence Nigel Biggar Tests This Indictment Addressing Crucial Questions Eight Chapters: Was British Driven Primarily Greed Lust Dominate? Should Speak ‘Colonialism Slavery’ Same Breath If They Were Identical? Essentially Racist? How Far It Based Theft Land? Did Involve Genocide? Fundamentally Motive Economic Exploitation? Undemocratic Government Necessarily Illegitimate? Violent Pervasively Racist Terroristic? Makes Clear Like Any Other Long-Standing State Involved Elements Injustice Sometimes Appalling Occasions Culpably Incompetent Presided Over Moments Dreadful Tragedy Nevertheless From Early 1800S Committed Abolishing Slave Trade Name Christian Conviction Basic Equality All Human Beings Ended Endemic Inter-Tribal Warfare Opened Local Economies Opportunities Moderated Impact Inescapable Modernisation Established Rule Law Institutions Such Free Press Spent Itself Defeating Murderously Nazi Japanese Empires Second War Encyclopaedic Historical Breadth Is Penetrating Analytical Depth Colonialism Offers Moral Inquest Into Past Forensically Contesting Damaging Falsehoods Thereby Helping Rejuvenate Faith Future Σελίδες: 480 Διαστάσεις: 15 9X15 9Cm