Andrew THOMPSON, The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Readers already familiar with Andrew Thompson’s Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics c.1880-1932 (Harlow, 2000), will recognise the author’s main thesis here, but also appreciate the extent to which he is now applying that interpretation to a much broader range of historical evidence. Whereas Imperial Britain argued the case specifically for the political impact of empire over a relatively short period, this latest study seeks ‘to re-situate the empire in a reading of modern Brita..