A Great Wall to Batter Down
Adom Getachew, 21 May 2020
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
by Priyamvada Gopal.
Verso, 607 pp., £25, June 2019,978 1 78478 412 6 Show More
by Priyamvada Gopal.
Verso, 607 pp., £25, June 2019,
“... fall’ narrative of empire, in which chaos suddenly overthrows order. That is ‘misleading’, Priyamvada Gopal argues in Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent, because it suggests that there had been ‘a long period of stability followed by a sudden end’. Gopal surveys the hundred-year ... ”
