Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire- [Hardcover]

By: Sujit Sivasundaram

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: History,

ISBN: 9780007575541

SKU: BE500267941031

Pages: 480

Description: It is difficult now to imagine a time when Britain stood as the world’s supreme power, much less to imagine how that came to be. It was certainly not the product of calculated planning or superlative naval power, as often as that story is told. Turning this story inside out, Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram places what he terms ‘the forgotten quarter’ – the peoples and places of the Pacific and Indian Oceans to give a bold reinterpretation of how the British Empire was formed – and how it couldn’t have happened without a backdrop of global turmoil.