Uncommon Wealth av Kojo Koram

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<p><b>Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing</b><br><b>Longlisted for the </b><b>British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding</b><br><b>A <i>Guardian </i>Book of the Year</b><br><br><b>''Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights'' Akala</b><br><br><b>''A radical, beautifully written understanding of our history'' Owen Jones</b><br><br><b>''You can''t understand how Britain works today without reading it'' Frankie Boyle<br></b><br><b>''A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past, or it will come back to bite you'' Grace Blakeley</b><br><br><b>''This book should be part of the national curriculum'' Ellie Mae O''Hagan</b><br><br><b>Britain didn''t just put the empire back the way it had found it.<br></b><br><i>Uncommon Wealth</i> is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British cap