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082			_a325.341 _bGOP-I
100			_aGopal, Priyamvada
245			_aInsurgent Empire _b:Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
260			_aLondon _bSimon & Schuster India _c2019
300			_axiii,607p.
520			_aUpsets received views to show how rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire Much has been written on how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse influence has been largely overlooked. Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims of empire and subsequent beneficiaries of its crises of conscience but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free. This book examines dissent over the question of empire in Britain and shows how it was influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India. It also shows how a pivotal role in fomenting dissent was played by anticolonial campaigners based in London, at the heart of the empire.
650			_aAnti-imperialist movements _vBritish colonies _zGreat Britain
942			_2ddc _cBK