• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    2 years ago

    Amazing how Europe is discovering that countries they’ve colonized and brutalized for over a century aren’t really sympathetic towards their colonizers. I mean who could’ve possibly guessed this would be the case.

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          2 years ago

          I remember thinking the same myself once. An ill educated teenager, I wanted to learn more. I picked up Niall Ferguson’s Empire. From his website:

          … Niall Ferguson’s acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.

          I won’t tell you the subtitle. Okay, you’ve pulled my leg, I’ll tell you. It’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Took me some years to undo the damage that book did to my critical faculties.