Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire - Caroline Elkins
Category: Political
Narrator: Adam Barr
Tags: Political, History, Documentary, Adults
Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins, From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the countrys pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe, Sprawling across a quarter of the worlds land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britains 20th-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nations cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than 200 years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nations imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant natives, and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And sh
