The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire
25-05-2023 | English | ASIN: B0BMB3NKJP | 18 hrs 26 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 1.09 GB
Unabridged | Retail
Author/Narrator: David Veevers
25-05-2023 | English | ASIN: B0BMB3NKJP | 18 hrs 26 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 1.09 GB
Unabridged | Retail
Author/Narrator: David Veevers
In The Great Defiance, David Veevers looks beyond the myths of triumph and into the realities of British misadventures in the early days of Empire, meeting the extraordinary Indigenous and non-European people across the world who were the real forces to be reckoned with.
From the Indian Emperors who contained the nefarious ambitions of the East India Company, to the West African Kings who resisted British demands and set the terms of the trade in enslaved people, to the Paramount Chiefs in America who fought to expunge English colonists from their homelands, this book retells the history of early Empire from the all too familiar story of conquest to one of empowering defiance and resistance.