{"product_id":"perfidious-albion-man-lee-9781764391009","title":"Perfidious Albion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERFIDIOUS ALBION: The Untold Suffering Visited Upon Humanity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, comprehensive and honest accounts of British imperial violence have been needed but rarely attempted. While academic scholarship has documented specific atrocities, few works synthesize this evidence into an accessible narrative covering five centuries of systematic exploitation and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERFIDIOUS ALBION\u003c\/strong\u003e provides an unflinching examination of the British Empire's systematic violence, economic extraction, and deliberate destruction of colonized peoples. Drawing on extensive documentation from British archives, government records, and scholarly research, this comprehensive work challenges comfortable mythologies about \"civilizing missions\" and gifts of development. Through seventeen meticulously researched chapters, readers will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The Atlantic slave trade and Britain's role in transporting 3.1 million Africans under brutal conditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Deliberate famines causing over 60 million deaths through policies prioritizing British economic interests over human life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The Opium Wars and forced drug trade that devastated China and reduced its economy from one-third of global GDP to mere percentage points\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Systematic genocide of Indigenous peoples across multiple continents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Economic extraction of $45 trillion from India alone, deliberately under-developing colonies while enriching Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Concentration camps that became standard tools of imperial control across multiple continents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Cultural destruction and the systematic erasure of languages, identities, and histories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Britain's 21st-century resistance to accountability and continuing evasion of imperial crimes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work documents how Operation Legacy-the systematic destruction of incriminating colonial documents-demonstrates that British officials understood their conduct was indefensible. The continuing evasion, imperial nostalgia, resistance to reparations, and interventionist foreign policies reveal how the imperial mindset persists decades after formal empire's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously documented with over 1,400 citations and drawing from 484 sources, \u003cstrong\u003ePERFIDIOUS ALBION\u003c\/strong\u003e provides the honest historical reckoning that has been too long delayed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinchingly honest and systematically documented. The imperial history Britain has evaded for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764391004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764391009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Lee Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.27d","brand":"Man Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520158216447,"sku":"9781764391009","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6476da74-9198-4cce-a87d-3b8ebd17a0f6.jpg?v=1778741100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perfidious-albion-man-lee-9781764391009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}