Past imperfect
Jan 21, 2021
2 minutes
Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire
by Priya Satia Allen Lane, 384 pages, £25
The absorbing depth with which Priya Satia addresses an ambitious range of modern society’s most pro-found problems and questions in this book is phenomenal. In asking how British men felt able to justify running an empire rooted in violence and systemic inequality,
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