Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present by Robert Gildea

Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

The Wiles Lectures

Robert Gildea

366 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have s...

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