Fowler’s book is essential reading in our current politics of division, fear, and vile inflammatory rhetoric excluding people who do not fit into increasingly narrow definitions of Britishness
The Manchester Review
This compassionate, measured account - which does not shy away from the inevitable controversy of its subject, but never embraces easy or pat answers - offers an eloquent vision of how imperialism has come ...
The Observer
Our Island Stories engagingly mingles chatty or lyrical travelogue with digests of scholarly research. It aims for — and deserves to reach — a wide and open-minded readership
Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Fowler’s book is essential reading in our current politics of division, fear, and vile inflammatory rhetoric excluding people who do not fit into increasingly narrow definitions of Britishness
The Manchester Review
This compassionate, measured account - which does not shy away from the inevitable controversy of its subject, but never embraces easy or pat answers - offers an eloquent vision of how imperialism has come ...
The Observer
Our Island Stories engagingly mingles chatty or lyrical travelogue with digests of scholarly research. It aims for — and deserves to reach — a wide and open-minded readership
Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Fowler’s book is essential reading in our current politics of division, fear, and vile inflammatory rhetoric excluding people who do not fit into increasingly narrow definitions of Britishness
The Manchester Review
This compassionate, measured account - which does not shy away from the inevitable controversy of its subject, but never embraces easy or pat answers - offers an eloquent vision of how imperialism has come ...
The Observer
Our Island Stories engagingly mingles chatty or lyrical travelogue with digests of scholarly research. It aims for — and deserves to reach — a wide and open-minded readership