Episode 125: Role of Historians Providing Justification for British Imperialism
In TIME’S MONSTER, historian Priya Satia examines how British historians evolved from being policy makers providing ethical justification for the British empire to largely becoming opponents to imperialism challenging its moral edifice during the era of decolonization after World War 2. Satia was inspired to write this book after having an epiphany about Samuel Galton, the historical protagonist of her previous book, EMPIRE OF GUNS. Galton was a 19th century gun manufacturer in spite of his Quaker religion being opposed to war. He assuaged his conscience and his fellow Quakers by arguing that…
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