The Great Imperial Hangover

Enlightening... [Puri] makes a credible case for how, in the US and China, imperial legacies have left those powers with
different values that would be hard to reconcile.

* Spectator *
Puri has many penetrating insights into the way the legacies of empire still affect the behaviour of states and the international climate. * Financial Times *
An exceptional account, both personal and scholarly. * Prospect *
Masterly. I found new insights on almost every page. It achieves the remarkable feat of deepening our self-knowledge while at the same time broadening our understanding of the world around us. * Paul Strathern, author of Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires *
An excellent read. Samir Puri has written a calm, distilled and bracing book. * Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo's World *
Well written, comprehensive and judicious... a stimulating book. * New York Times *
This is a masterly, engaging, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how the vestiges of past empires shape the ways in which the world works today. * James Daybell, author of Histories of the Unexpected *
A timely and important re-thinking of imperial dominion. * Sam Willis, author of The Struggle for Sea Pow