An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate.
As they reimagined empire during the two world wars, decolonization was compromised..
While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed.
While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated.
For generations, British thinkers told the History of an empire whose story was still very much in the making.
An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate