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  A major new history of Britain, told through its centuries-long relationship with the CaribbeanBritish history has long had a void at its centre. Content to pick up the story of the Caribbean only in the 1940s with the Windrush generation it has no good explanation for the periodic explosions of violent racism against Black and Asian people; it has only the most limited understanding of how Britain became so powerful; and it offers no real analysis of the deep and irreconcilable contradictions at the heart of some of Britain’s ‘core values’. If it is the job of a national history to fully reflect the people who live within the nation, British history has for too long told people of Caribbean heritage that they have no history here. In this compelling new history, Christienna Fryar shows how for the last five hundred years the Caribbean and Britain have shaped each other in profound ways. From the earliest encounters between indigenous societies and English colonists in the 1500s to the citizenship scandal of the last several years, she reveals how the Caribbean has been key to Britain economically, culturally and ideologically: the source of foods Britons eat, the goods in their homes, and what they have imagined in fiction. For centuries, people from the Caribbean have consistently pushed more expansive ideas of freedom into British society, while the way Britain has treated Caribbean people – from enslaved people, through the deeply comprised process of abolition in the nineteenth century, to the elders of the Windrush generation – has long exposed the profound limits of its liberal ideals. Britain’s Caribbean history is not hidden. It’s there for those who want to find it. And to see it, as Christienna Fryar shows, requires looking at Britain differently, asking different questions, and writing national history in different ways.

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  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN 9780241530450
  • Tuotekoodi 9780241530450
  • Alanimike A Caribbean History of Britain
  • Kirjoittajat Dr Christienna Fryar
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Thema-luokitus Maassa-, maahan- ja maastamuutto; Euroopan historia; Amerikkojen historia; Kolonialismi ja imperialismi; Itsenäistymispyrkimykset ja itsenäisyys, postkolonialismi
  • Ilmestymispäivä 06.05.2027
  • Vuosi 2027
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk historia, muistelmat
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Sivumäärä 400
  • Pituus (mm) 240
  • Leveys (mm) 156
  • Korkeus (mm) 40
  • Paino (g) 750
  • Tuotemuoto Kovakantinen
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot Penguin Random House Ireland Limited, productsafety@penguin.co.uk, Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street, D02 YH68, Dublin
  • ALV 13,5%

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