The Blood Never Dried by Newsinger, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the author Acknowledgements Title Dedication Copyright Contents Introduction: the blood never dried The Jamaican rebellion and the overthrow of slavery

The sugar empire The years of revolution The overthrow of slavery Abolition Morant Bay, 1865

The Irish famine

The Great Hunger Evictions John Mitchel and the famine 1848 in Ireland Irish Republicanism

The Opium Wars

“The safest and most gentlemanlike speculation I am aware of ” The First Opium War The Taiping rebellion The Second Opium War The Third Opium War Crushing the Taiping rebels

The Great Indian Rebellion, 1857-58

By the sword Company rule The Great Rebellion War Repression The war at home The aftermath

The invasion of Egypt, 1882

Ismail and the bankers “Egypt for the Egyptians!” The Liberal response “Vast numbers of Egyptian dead” The Mahdi and Sudan Reconquest

The post-war crisis, 1916-26

The Irish struggle The revolt in Egypt, 1919 “Holding India by the sword” War in Iraq The Chinese Revolution, 30 May 1925

The Palestine revolt

Zionism and Imperialism The mandate The road to revolt The Great Revolt, 1 The Great Revolt, 2 Defeat and aftermath

Quit India

India and the Labour Party Towards “Quit India” Quit India “The final judgement on British Rule in India” The end of British rule

The Suez invasion: losing the Middle East

Iranian oil Egypt and the Canal Zone Nasser and the road to war Collusion and invasion Aftermath The Iraqi endgame

Crushing the Mau Mau in Kenya

Pacification The Mau Mau revolt War Repression Independence The other rebellion : Southern Rhodesia

Malaya and the Far East

The First Vietnam War A forgotten intervention: Indonesia 1945-46 Reoccupying Malaya The emergency Confrontation

Britain and the American Empire

Labour and the American alliance From Suez to Vietnam A British Gaullism New Labour Invading Iraq

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