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BRILLIANTLY ARRANGED AND RICH WITH FRESH INSIGHTS UNCOMMON WEALTH REMINDS US HOW THE FORGOTTEN STORIES OF EMPIRE AND DECOLONISATION CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES IN BRITAIN AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD UP TO TODAY AKALA
Britain didnt just put the empire back the way it had found it
In Uncommon Wealth Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of wellheeled British intellectuals politicians accountants and lawyers offshored their capital seized assets and saddled debt in former dependencies This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britains former territories in colonial Africa Asia and the Caribbean were trapped in poverty However the reinforcement of capitalist power across the world also ricocheted back home Now it has left many Britons wondering where their own sovereignty and prosperity has gone
Decolonisation was not just a trendy buzzword It was one of the great global changes of the past hundred years yet Britain the protagonist in the whole messy drama has forgotten it was ever even there A blistering uncovering of the scandal of Britains disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire Uncommon Wealth shows the decisions of decades past are contributing to the forces that are breaking Britain today
P Hodder amp Stoughton Limited
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