THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In his ground-breaking new book Sathnam Sanghera traces
the legacies of British empire around the world. 'A wonderful book' Rory Stewart 'Nuanced
and deeply researched' Financial Times 'Not just a welcome corrective but a book for our
times' Peter Frankopan _____________________________________________________ The British
empire was built on slavery but it also pioneered abolition. It spread democracy but it also
seeded geopolitical instability. It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notions
of environmentalism. In this urgent sequel to Empireland award-winning author and journalist
Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the
wider world. Travelling across outposts of the former empire from Barbados and Mauritius to
India and Nigeria and beyond Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of
imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad. In Empireworld Sanghera
instead seeks out nuance to reveal how contradictory forces of the British empire have shaped
our world and what they mean for our place within it today.
_____________________________________________________ 'An absolute masterpiece' James O'Brien
'Puts Sanghera in the firmament of great imperial historians' Yasmin Alibhai-Brown i
'Profoundly moving' Elizabeth Day
