(DOWNLOAD) One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

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One Fine Day Britain's Empire on the Brink
Sinopsis
This critical historical exploration shows a
portrait of the British Empire at both the peak
of its global reach8212an the moment it began
to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the
Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the
British Empire8212no covering a quarter of the
world8217sland and boasting a population of 460
million8212isthe largest the world has ever
seen. But it is also an empire in rapid
transition. Nationalist and Pan-African
movements are gaining momentum throughout West
Africa, thanks as much to Marcus Garvey as to
the sustained efforts of local activists and
politicians. On far-flung Ocean Island in the
Pacific, highly profitable phosphate extraction
threatens to render the land uninhabitable for
its native population8212an colonial officials
are torn between their integrity and their
careers. And in India, Jawaharlal Nehru and
fellow nationalists wonder despairingly about
the future of the independence movement as Gandhi
languishes in prison. Moving from London to Kuala
Lumpur, Australia to the West Indies, One Fine
Day is a breathtaking and unflinching tour of the
British Empire at its pinnacle. Here the Empire
is at its biggest but it is on a precipice,
beset with debts and doubts as liberation
movements emerge to undo the colonial era, and
see thesun set on the Empire.
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