**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022** A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. 'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and...

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But...

"Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya" von Caroline Elkins untersucht die britische Kolonialherrschaft und deren gewaltsames Ende in Kenia während des Mau-Mau-Aufstands in den 1950er Jahren. Elkins deckt auf, wie die...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a revelatory, fearless history of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. In this groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian...