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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Rethinking the End of the British Empire
Speaker: Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Professor of History, Harvard University
Systematized violence punctuated the end of the British Empire in the aftermath of the Second World War. While Britain cut its losses in some parts of its empire, as in India, it also sought to establish itself in the shifting world order through imperial resurgence in other parts of the globe. From Palestine and Malaya to Kenya and Cyprus, British colonial and military forces, along with MI5, fought wars to defend economic and geopolitical interests, all the while positioning the island nation in the shifting landscape of the Cold War. By examining the movement of people and ideas from one counter-insurgency theater to the next, Britain's uses and logics of violence and torture against local populations emerge, as do the mutually constitutive ideologies of liberalism and imperialism.
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Brilliant work
The people in the audience are so noisy 😩. I want to hear Caroline !
The end of the American Empire pupils should take note
Good one !
So, safe to say we've been deluded, or deluded ourselves to the point of total insulation from reality - and the embrace or disaster and destruction.
Caroline Elkins is awesome .... I am going to read her book. I have to say though, that she talks so fast and her voice is so high and lilting that she is hard to hear.