Colonialism
A Moral Reckoning
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Narrateur(s):
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Matt Bates
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Nigel Biggar
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The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.
Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the liberal West faces major threats.
These threats are not only external. Especially in the Anglosphere, the ‘decolonisation’ movement corrodes the West’s self-confidence by retelling the history of European and American colonial dominance as a litany of racism, exploitation, and massively murderous violence.
Nigel Biggar tests this indictment, addressing the crucial questions in eight chapters: Was the British Empire driven primarily by greed and the lust to dominate? Should we speak of ‘colonialism and slavery’ in the same breath, as if they were identical? Was the Empire essentially racist? How far was it based on the theft of land? Did it involve genocide? Was it driven fundamentally by the motive of economic exploitation? Was undemocratic colonial government necessarily illegitimate? and, Was the Empire essentially violent, and its violence pervasively racist and terroristic?
Biggar makes clear that, like any other long-standing state, the British Empire involved elements of injustice, sometimes appalling. On occasions it was culpably incompetent and presided over moments of dreadful tragedy.
Nevertheless, from the early 1800s the Empire was committed to abolishing the slave trade in the name of a Christian conviction of the basic equality of all human beings. It ended endemic inter-tribal warfare, opened local economies to the opportunities of global trade, moderated the impact of inescapable modernisation, established the rule of law and liberal institutions such as a free press, and spent itself in defeating the murderously racist Nazi and Japanese empires in the Second World War.
As encyclopaedic in historical breadth as it is penetrating in analytical depth, Colonialism offers a moral inquest into the colonial past, forensically contesting damaging falsehoods and thereby helping to rejuvenate faith in the West’s future.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
‘A fascinating read, informative, surprising and written with panache and clarity’ The Times, Andrew Billen
‘A thoughtful, compelling text’ Daily Telegraph, five-star review
‘A salutary corrective’ The Times, Book of the Week
‘Carries the intellectual force of a Javeline antitank missile. Colonialism is no apologia for empire… but calls for balance…Biggar acknowledges wickedness in our nation but his version of history calls us to accept the messiness and moral compromises inherent in liberalism’ Sunday Times
‘Nigel Biggar has written … the book on the morality of the British Empire, a kind of Encyclopaedia Pacis Britannicae…. a thoughtful, compelling text’ Sunday Telegraph
‘An important, timely and brave book…the first serious counter blast against the hysterical and ahistorical orthodoxy that has placed such a stranglehold on our public discourse on the British Empire, and as such will prove to be an indispensable handbook in the battles to come. It is also exceedingly well written and compellingly argued’ The Critic
‘An important book, as well as a courageous one’ Literary Review
‘Patiently argued and carefully balanced yet passionately committed to the production of a narrative which replaces denunciation and with evidences and understanding’ Quillette
‘Biggar fearlessly goes where few other scholars now venture to tread: to defend the British empire against its increasingly vitriolic detractors … Those who wish to accuse the Victorians of genocide – who seek gulags in Kenya or Holocausts in the Raj – will probably not risk being ‘triggered’ by reading this book. But they really should … Biggar’s book simply cannot be ignored by anyone who wishes to hold a view on the subject’
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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- Mark S
- 2023-03-15
A mostly balanced perspective
The author is clearly unshambed of western civilization. His motivation is to balance current condemnation of historic colonialism with perspective and as much unbiased fact as possible.
You do not need to pick sides in order to benefit from listening to this audio book. In fact, picking a side at all is probably a failure to appreciate the scope and infinite complexity of all the human factors at play.
The British Empire was not perfect. But it is worth asking if an alternative would or could have been any better.
I suppose my personal bias is that I appreciate the benefits of modern civilization and acknowledge the challenges of human nature and the limitations of government to create utopia.
Not perfect, but could be worse.
Life before modern civilization was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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- jacob roy
- 2023-06-14
A Centrist's Point of View
Many years ago, books that discussed colonialism could often be triumphant and even bigoted in character. More recently it seems most books were purely critical. In Colonialism A Moral Reckoning, Biggar, attempts, rather successfully, to find a balance. Colonialism is a part of human history and it is has both benefited and impeded the people involved in it.
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- Hareishun S
- 2023-10-07
Nuanced, scholarly, and an excellent review of the issue.
Puts to shame the ideologically possessed Academics at the Ivy League, and Oxbridge.
Unlike them, the Author reviews the events, intentions, and outcomes of what occurred during British Colonialism, and gives both praise and condemnation, when it’s due.
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