Robert Dare
Robert Dare reviews 'Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain' by John Darwin
Robert Dare
Thursday, 28 November 2013
The main title of John Darwin’s new book is simple but mischievous. Its primary purpose is to announce that he sees empire as an activity rather than a thing. People, millions of them, made it, and remade it constantly, over long stretches of time; it was always in progress, always being finished ...
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Published in
December 2013–January 2014, no. 357
Robert Dare reviews 'Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present' by Neville Kirk
Robert Dare
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
In 1902 the New Zealander William Pember Reeves published a pioneering study of social innovations in Australia and New Zealand. He wrote it, he said, for the ‘increasing number of students in England, on the Continent, and in America who are sincerely interested in them’ ...
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Published in
November 2011, no. 336