David Cannadine
Professor Sir Professor Cannadine FBA is a historian of modern British history from 1800 to 2000. He is currently Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and has previously taught at Cambridge, Columbia, and London, where he was Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Since October 2014, David has been Editor of the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Books by David Cannadine
“I think he’s a really interesting historian who writes very beautifully. It’s a historical essay – the thesis of which is somewhat contra Edward Said’s arguments in his book Orientalism. Part of Cannadine’s argument is that there was much more cultural interpenetration in the British Empire, certainly in India, than Said suggests. But also its central contention is that the British Empire wanted to see in other cultures a replication of its own power structure, and of its own aristocracy and royalty.” Read more...
The best books on The Mau Mau Uprising and The Fading Empire
Adam Foulds, Novelist
Interviews with David Cannadine
The best books on British Empire, recommended by David Cannadine
Historian David Cannadine tells us why it’s less interesting to argue about whether the British Empire was a force for good or ill, than to understand how it worked and why it fell apart. He suggests a reading list to get us started.
Interviews where books by David Cannadine were recommended
The best books on The Mau Mau Uprising and The Fading Empire, recommended by Adam Foulds
British novelist and poet Adam Foulds discusses fading empire in the context of Kenya, including the horrors of British gulags, the Mau Mau uprising, and the social deprivation endured by the Kikuyu.
