- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperPress (2 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007247141
- ISBN-13: 978-0007247141
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 952,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the makers of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' comes 'Empire's Children' – a tie-in edition to a six part TV series for Channel 4 – which tells the story of Empire, and follows the personal journeys of six British celebrities as they retrace their steps through their multicultural past.
British society is in every way defined by its Imperial past. It is home to 2.3 million British Asians, 570,000 Caribbeans and 250,000 Chinese. Not to mention Cypriots, Australians and southern Africans. These people represent different cultures and divergent experiences but they all share a common heritage: they are the children (grandchildren, or great grandchildren) of Empire; and their lives have been shaped by that legacy.
In the second part of the 20th century, Britain relinquished control of 64 countries and half a billion subjects. During that period, many thousands of those same former British subjects fled their homes to build new lives here.
What were they hoping to find? Why did they want to come to the very country they'd fought so hard to free themselves from? What kinds of lives were they leaving behind? What was the reality of their new life here? And how was British society itself shaped by their arrival and assimilation here? Real concerns that are very much in forefront of our minds in the multicultural melting pot that Britain is today.
‘Empire’s Children’ seeks to answer these questions by concentrating on the personal and emotive journeys of six chosen celebrities as they retrace the steps which they – or their parents or grandparents – took in order to reach this country for the first time. The stories will cover post colonial histories of Africa, the subcontinent, the West Indies, Australasia, South East Asia and Cyprus. In some cases, they will spend some time in the former colony and experience the motivations as well as the drama of the journey itself.
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I bought this book expecting it to be a good bit of information on the British Empire but instead it was a total disapointment. The book completly focuses on multiculturalism and isn't really about the empire at all, more on what its non-white people were like and the affects it had on them.
It completly ommits countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America, instead choosing to focus on India, Africa and the Carribean. This book is SUPPOSED to be about the empire, aren't the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders the offspring off the empire, its children? Apparently the aurthor of this book thinks not.
I accept multiculturalism and embrace it to an extent but this book has a huge bias towards it and tries to shove multiculturalism down your throat, it almost looks as if it was written by the goverment.
The information in the book is utter rubbish too, and it focusses on trying to get us to feel guilt over the empire.
Don't buy this book and don't read it unless you want to waste your time.
It is total rubbish!
It completly ommits countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America, instead choosing to focus on India, Africa and the Carribean. This book is SUPPOSED to be about the empire, aren't the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders the offspring off the empire, its children? Apparently the aurthor of this book thinks not.
I accept multiculturalism and embrace it to an extent but this book has a huge bias towards it and tries to shove multiculturalism down your throat, it almost looks as if it was written by the goverment.
The information in the book is utter rubbish too, and it focusses on trying to get us to feel guilt over the empire.
Don't buy this book and don't read it unless you want to waste your time.
It is total rubbish!
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