Caroline Elkins is fascinating personality. With her curiosity, she conquers my heart. I have read her book about Kenya and I was stunned. Now I read history of British Empire and it's also good stuff. But her speach and her inquisitive nature blown my mind!
in my father's home country of Sri Lanka, the legacy of british colonialism was more than a quarter century of violent civil war. Thanks Britain. i count myself as an unwanted waste product of british imperialism.
british ended slavery LOL! sort of naive conclusion only a unquestioning child would hold. the british crown & most especially under the hanoverian (Germanic) era just reinvented the widescale use & abuse of human labour - no longer economical or need for the costly transport of slaves from Africa , not when they had uprooted and made destitute tens of millions in their colonies via terrorism. Just like in Iraq, where the devastate population queued patiently for any job, even that of a new police / army - despite the extreme risks to life! REALITY CHECK for those who like to selectively justify or just meekly accept BS claims of humanity via any aspect of british colonial crown past. Plain old greed theft via evil extremes of mass terrorism = british empire.
I wonder what Mr. Niall Ferguson that “erudite historian” and unashamed apologist of the British Empire have to say of the disclosures by Ms. Caroline Elkins and her books.
he would deny all the atrocities of the evil empire, as all british apologists for the atrocities committed by britain always do. "the british empire is the exception to the rule of empires being violent". its utter lies and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone who doesn't live inside the highly effective british propaganda machine.
If there is no British Empire my family will most probably starved to death under the mass hunger aftermath of Mao's Great Leap Forward with the cost of over 40 million lives throughout the country.
Lar M I'm Irish, the British Empire was responsible for the death/starvation of upwards of two million Irish people in the great Irish Famine of 1845/47. Just one example in 800 years of domination by the British Empire. There was enough food locked in warehouses in Irish ports to feed the people, but the British landlords insisted on exporting and selling it on the world market. We are still suffering for those events through race memory.
The British Empire deliberately starved over 40 million in India, more than than Mao was accused of having killed (with no mention of blockades). The British Empire also very deliberately caused millions of starvation deaths in Iran during WW II, and another 2 million Indians. The Potato Famine in Ireland was more than the blight of the potato crop that Irish families depended on. It was the result of the British aristocracy exporting grain from Ireland WHILE one fourth of that population starved to death, and another fourth fled for survival’s sake.
That's Interesting, I didn't know there were positive effects towards the Chinese-How exactly did the Empire Help in that way? The British Empire wass the most controversial and interesting one, because it's literally the only one that had an equal amount of positive/humanitarian achievements as well as atrocities/exploitations.They ended the slave trade by policing the waters of the world for decades, despite blanket opposition by every other nation except eventually France and the usa, helped the jews to flee eastern europe and certain death, to settle in israel and prevented the colonists in united states from moving westward and exterminating the native americans, honouring the treaties, until The US won the war of independence and as soon as it did, It started annihilating the Native Americans. Also, on the negative side, the Empire exploited vast quuantities of people, but also left great Organised political, legal and economic structures, and infrastructure and technology, especially the industrial revolution.
@@Cyallaire The Indian rulers of different states exploited their people just as badly before the brits showed up and slavery was Endemic in the Indian landmass,Just like it was everyone house, until the Brits ended it,, with persistence for decades.
@@Rowlph8888Have you heard of coolies? That the name put on those that England took from one colonized country within the Empire to another in a system that replaced slavery, but worked people to death routinely.
Caroline Elkins is fascinating personality. With her curiosity, she conquers my heart. I have read her book about Kenya and I was stunned. Now I read history of British Empire and it's also good stuff. But her speach and her inquisitive nature blown my mind!
Colonialism should be designated a crime against humanity .
in my father's home country of Sri Lanka, the legacy of british colonialism was more than a quarter century of violent civil war. Thanks Britain. i count myself as an unwanted waste product of british imperialism.
This is amazing.
british ended slavery LOL! sort of naive conclusion only a unquestioning child would hold. the british crown & most especially under the hanoverian (Germanic) era just reinvented the widescale use & abuse of human labour - no longer economical or need for the costly transport of slaves from Africa , not when they had uprooted and made destitute tens of millions in their colonies via terrorism.
Just like in Iraq, where the devastate population queued patiently for any job, even that of a new police / army - despite the extreme risks to life!
REALITY CHECK for those who like to selectively justify or just meekly accept BS claims of humanity via any aspect of british colonial crown past.
Plain old greed theft via evil extremes of mass terrorism = british empire.
u go into a man's country ,take away his land , when he resisted your actions you turn big guns on him , what brutality.
I wonder what Mr. Niall Ferguson that “erudite historian” and unashamed apologist of the British Empire have to say of the disclosures by Ms. Caroline Elkins and her books.
he would deny all the atrocities of the evil empire, as all british apologists for the atrocities committed by britain always do.
"the british empire is the exception to the rule of empires being violent". its utter lies and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone who doesn't live inside the highly effective british propaganda machine.
I guess he will ignore it
No, don't you go into detail, you might bump into facts.
If there is no British Empire my family will most probably starved to death under the mass hunger aftermath of Mao's Great Leap Forward with the cost of over 40 million lives throughout the country.
Lar M
I'm Irish, the British Empire was responsible for the death/starvation of upwards of two million Irish people in the great Irish Famine of 1845/47. Just one example in 800 years of domination by the British Empire. There was enough food locked in warehouses in Irish ports to feed the people, but the British landlords insisted on exporting and selling it on the world market. We are still suffering for those events through race memory.
The British Empire deliberately starved over 40 million in India, more than than Mao was accused of having killed (with no mention of blockades). The British Empire also very deliberately caused millions of starvation deaths in Iran during WW II, and another 2 million Indians. The Potato Famine in Ireland was more than the blight of the potato crop that Irish families depended on. It was the result of the British aristocracy exporting grain from Ireland WHILE one fourth of that population starved to death, and another fourth fled for survival’s sake.
That's Interesting, I didn't know there were positive effects towards the Chinese-How exactly did the Empire Help in that way? The British Empire wass the most controversial and interesting one, because it's literally the only one that had an equal amount of positive/humanitarian achievements as well as atrocities/exploitations.They ended the slave trade by policing the waters of the world for decades, despite blanket opposition by every other nation except eventually France and the usa, helped the jews to flee eastern europe and certain death, to settle in israel and prevented the colonists in united states from moving westward and exterminating the native americans, honouring the treaties, until The US won the war of independence and as soon as it did, It started annihilating the Native Americans. Also, on the negative side, the Empire exploited vast quuantities of people, but also left great Organised political, legal and economic structures, and infrastructure and technology, especially the industrial revolution.
@@Cyallaire The Indian rulers of different states exploited their people just as badly before the brits showed up and slavery was Endemic in the Indian landmass,Just like it was everyone house, until the Brits ended it,, with persistence for decades.
@@Rowlph8888Have you heard of coolies? That the name put on those that England took from one colonized country within the Empire to another in a system that replaced slavery, but worked people to death routinely.