Caroline Elkins is a professor of history and of African and
African American studies at Harvard University and the founding
director of Harvard's Centre for African Studies. She is the
recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright and an Andrew
W. Mellon Fellowship.
Her first book, Britain's Gulag- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya,
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Her research
for that book was the subject of the award-winning BBC documentary
Kenya- White Terror. She also served as an expert in the historic
Mau Mau reparations case, brought against the British Government by
survivors of violence in Kenya.
She is a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, Guardian,
Atlantic, Washington Post and New Republic. She lives in Watertown,
Massachusetts.
Masterful, crucial ... as unflinching as it is gripping, as
carefully researched as it is urgently necessary
*Jill Lepore, author of These Truths*
Masterly... demonstrates that the British Empire, far from being
part good, part bad, baked together from the outset state-sponsored
violence and institutional racism with a periodic rewriting of its
history as one of progress and civilisation, covering up atrocities
and hiding or destroying incriminating documents. This book is
dynamite
*Robert Gildea, author of Empires of the Mind*
The history of the British Empire that we desperately need today...
Sweeping, forceful, and passionately argued... A monumental
achievement
*Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch*
A gripping, richly peopled, epic narrative... In stunning prose and
drawing on staggering research, Elkins uncovers the reality of
routine and ruthlessly violent suspension of law and militarized
policing as imperial personnel and practices moved from crisis to
crisis around the globe
*Priya Satia, author of Time's Monster: How History Makes
History*
In nothing was the British Empire more successful than its skilful
concealment of the violence that it unleashed across the globe,
over centuries. Caroline Elkins' Legacy of Violence is a laudably
ambitious attempt at unearthing this hidden legacy, the bitter
fruits of which are becoming more and more visible every day
*Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg’s Curse*
Illuminating and authoritative... The repression and violence
Elkins narrates on an epic scale matters because they continue to
reverberate tragically in our global present
*Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire*
A work of deep archival achievement that creates a historical
argument that is courageous and ambitious... This is a text for our
times
*Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities,
Harvard University*
A thumping great study by a heavyweight academic historian
*The Times, *Books to Look Out For 2022**
A clear, incisive account of the way in which the British
maintained public order in the colonies through 'lawful
lawlessness'... An exceedingly valuable book on the dark side of
the British Empire
*Wm. Roger Louis, Editor-in-Chief of Oxford History of the British
Empire*
Legacy of Violence is a formidable piece of research that sets
itself the ambition of identifying the character of British power
over the course of two centuries and four continents... this
history could not be more timely
*Observer*
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