Burton’s essay introduces the forum on Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire, setting out the terms of the debate and mapping the entanglements of an anti-exceptionalist argument with narratives of rise-and-fall that have predominated until recently in British imperial history.
Falluja, rise-and-fall narratives, comparison, anti-imperialism, anticolonial nationalism, seriality, scale
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