Legacy of Violence: A History of British Empire in Palestine

Dr. Carolina Elkins, Professor of History at Harvard University  “Legacy of Violence: A History of British Empire in the Arab Middle East and Beyond” November 2022

Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Caroline Elkins implicates all sides of Britain’s political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence, which was the most salient factor underwriting Britain’s empire and the nation’s imperial identity at home. Elkin upends long held myths and sheds new light on empire’s role in shaping the world today.