@article{1553138, author = {Riley, Charlotte Lydia,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1553138}, title = {Imperial island : an alternative history of the British Empire /}, abstract = {After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.}, recid = {1553138}, pages = {1 online resource (313 pages)}, }