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IMPERIAL ISLAND - CHARLOTTE LYDIA RILEY KARTONI...

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined
Britain over the last seventy years. 'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way
ever again' OWEN JONES After the Second World War  Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. As
white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised  Commonwealth
citizens from Asia and the Caribbean migrated to a motherland that often refused to recognise
them. Race riots erupted in Liverpool and Notting Hill even as communities lived and loved
across the colour line. In the 1950s and 60s  imperial violence came home too  pervading the
policing of immigrant communities  including their sex lives. In the decade that followed  a
surge of support for the far-right inspired an invigorated anti-racist movement. These tensions
and the imperial mindset that birthed them  have dominated Britain's relationship with itself
and the world ever since: from the simplistic moral equation of Band Aid to the invasion of
Iraq  in the tragedy of Stephen Lawrence and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics  we see
how Britain's contradictory relationship with its past has undermined its self-image as a
multicultural nation. Imperial Island tells a story of immigration and fractured identity  of
social strife and communal solidarity  of people on the move and of a people wrestling with
their past. It is the story that best explains Britain today. 'An eye-opening study of the
empire within' SHASHI THAROOR 'Clear  bold  refreshing' LUCY WORSLEY

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