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28 mar 2022 · Britain is rarely seen as among the worst offenders, given a reputation for decency that the Harvard historian Caroline Elkins has spent more than two decades trying to undermine.
- Misremembering the British Empire - The New Yorker
Britons have been left ill-equipped to say. Unlike most...
- Misremembering the British Empire - The New Yorker
16 lut 2018 · They’ve committed such heinous crimes that they’ve gone down in the history books as not only the most horrible people in the UK but the world as well. But who are the worst of the worst? What ten people belong on this list the most?
12 mar 2013 · Here are ten ways the British Empire ruined the world: 10. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, the ruling party in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The rights of the nation’s black majority were curtailed, and white supremacy and Afrikaner-minority rule was maintained.
26 paź 2020 · Britons have been left ill-equipped to say. Unlike most other European countries, Britain stops requiring students to study history when they reach the age of fourteen, which leaves little room...
26 sie 2014 · The British Empire brought profound changes to the world—but in the decades since its rapid decline after World War II it has become a kind of a historical joke, sometimes in poor taste.
25 sty 2024 · Between 1838 and 1880, it is estimated that British imperial conflicts in Afghanistan, China, India and South Africa caused more than a million deaths. Nor is this just a story of the devastation...
7 kwi 2011 · How accurate is David Cameron's suggestion that Britain and the legacy of its empire was responsible for many of the world's historic problems? Two historians give their views.
