Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 - Tapa blanda

"Brilliant and original. . . . Colley offers a challenge to the traditional tale of Imperial Britain's rise." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Brilliantly corrective. . . . a book of wise topicality." --Julian Barnes, Times Literary Supplement

"Illuminating. . . . Colley shows how the stories of British captives helped shape the literature, politics and public opinion of the time." --The Washington Post Book World

"This is a scholarly book that deserves a popular success, and what it amounts to is a revisionist history of the British empire itself. . . . provocative and indeed brilliant." --The Boston Globe

"This is the kind of history book that could not have been written a generation ago . . . Linda Colley . . . is a completely original intelligence." --Financial Times

"Engaging, gracefully written. . . . Sharp-eyed. . . . There is marvelous detail on every page." --The New York Times Book Review

"Captives is another important and beautifully written book by this first-rank British historian."--Irish Times

"A sort of White Teeth version of imperial history. . . . A completely original intelligence."--The Financial Times

"A brilliantly illuminating study by one of Britain's most distinguished historians."--New Statesman

"Consistently enlightening. . . . An insightful and stimulating book that presents history with a fresh perspective." --BookPage

"Innovative.... Colley brings a contemporary edge to her writing... [She is] one of the most interesting historians at work today." --Wilson Quarterly

"Colley's fascinating book links captivity with imperial expansion and underscores the Britons' ultimate dependence on loyal 'natives.'" --The New York Review of Books

"Captives is an invitation to think again about an old story too often told in the same old way... It is a book which should alter the way in which the history not only of the British, but of all the European empires is written." --London Review of Books

"Superb... coruscating." --Independent on Sunday (London)

"Abounds in fascinating human stories and constantly requires the reader to reconsider accepted dogma." --Daily Telegraph (London)

"Sublimely well written: cunningly paced, beguilingly fluent, deftly allusive, vividly evocative. It is a major contribution to understanding the paradox of the British: the weak who wangled the earth." --Literary Review

"Linda Colley is a great storyteller and she breathes life into the manuscripts she has discovered by captives in the early days of the Empire." --The Observer (London)

"Dexterous, wonderfully subtle." --The Sunday Times

"This fine, thought-provoking book - at once readable and educative - is crammed full of telling insights." --Sunday Telegraph

"Stunningly revisionist... Almost every page of Captives challenges a settled orthodoxy or opens up a fertile new field for research." --History Today

Re-examines the history of the British empire from the unusual perspective of the British men and women held captive--literally and figuratively--by those they were sent to conquer, exploring the complex dynamics between invader and invaded, the character of cross-cultural conflicts and collusions, and the meaning of empire, both in the past and present. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.