’Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ – Akala
Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain’s exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies, and in particular the people of Africa, Asia and Australasia
Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and expanding the Empire; how the British Industrial Revolution de...
Innehållsförteckning
Foreword by Stella Dadzie
Preface
Introduction
Part I: How Britain Became ‘Great Britain’
1. Britain and its Empire
2. The Triangular Trade
3. India...
Om författaren
Stella Dadzie is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (Virago, 1985) which won the Martin Luther King A...