# Imperial Island

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- Book: [Imperial Island](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlotte-lydia-riley/imperial-island) ([Imperial Island.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlotte-lydia-riley/imperial-island.md))
- Authors: [Charlotte Lydia Riley](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlotte-lydia-riley)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-380-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2024-05-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people, their culture, society and politics, throughout the last seventy years. Drawing on a mass of new research, from personal letters to pop culture, it tells a story of immigration and fractured identity, of social strife and communal solidarity, of people on the move and of a people wrestling with their past. It is the story that best explains Britain today.