Stuart Ward is Professor and Head of the Saxo Institute of History, Ethnology, Archaeology and Classics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire (2010; co-authored with James Curran) and Australia and the British Embrace (2001), and the editor of British Culture and the End of Empire (2001). Astrid Rasch is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the editor of Life Writing After Empire (2017).
This assemblage of formidable essays illuminates the myriad understandings of yesteryear's empire and today's Empire 2.0, their roles in the Brexit debates, and, ultimately, their roles in broader international, national, and self understandings in Britain, continental Europe, and the post-colonial world. Thought-provoking, deftly concise, and lucidly presented, this collection should be assigned reading for scholars and general audiences, alike. * Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA * A serious, scholarly engagement with the legacies of empire in Brexit Britain is long overdue. Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain brings together an impressive array of scholars, in a volume to make all sides think, argue and look afresh at the afterlives of empire in modern Britain. * Robert Saunders, Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *