E-Books →The Brutish Empire Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire's methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native Americans with smallpox and the cold-blooded treatment of the starving during the Irish Famine, Des Ekin lays bare the atrocities committed in the name of colonisation.
With many nations worldwide still grappling with the legacy of British rule, Ekin explores the justifications used to dehumanise other people and rationalise their abuse, exploitation and slaughter. In this rigorously researched and eminently readable book, Des Ekin lifts the veil on the harrowing realities of colonial rule.
Table of Contents
First ... A Micro-History of the British Empire
Amritsar - The Massacre that Shocked the World
Biological Warfare
Concentration Camps
Drug Dealing for Queen and Country
Eugenics, Elitism and English Exceptionalism - A Glimpse Into the Mindset of Empire
Famine in Ireland
The G-Word: Genocide or Not?
Hunting for Human Beings
Ireland: The Test Lab of Empire
Jamaica and the Saturnalia of Slaughter
Kleptomania
Lashman - The Extraordinary John Nicholson
'McEmpire': - The East India Company
The New World
Omdurman and the Slaughter of the Wounded
Partition of India and the End of British Rule
Queensland: The Dark History Behind the Sunshine State
Revolt in India, 1857 - The So-called 'Indian Mutiny'
Slavery
'Terror Beyond the Grave' - The Peculiar Policy of Postmortem Punishment
The 'Unknown Continent' and the Unbeatable Weapon
Van Diemen's Land
'The White Man's Fury' - The Waikato Atrocities in New Zealand
The Xhosa Wars
Younghusband's Yaks, and the Invasion of Tibet
Zulus
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