Britain's empire: resistance, repression and revolt
As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. It recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. Richard Gott recounts the Britain's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence
