**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...