Owen Hatherley: Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions [2022] paperback

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Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisiveposturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some ofits former colonial "kith and kin" across the seas? Why be in a Union with...

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Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive
posturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of
its former colonial "kith and kin" across the seas? Why be in a Union with your
immediate neighbours, when you could instead be in a trans-oceanic super-state with
our old friends in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of
the 'CANZUK Union', the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the
white-majority 'Dominions' of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong
borders and climate change denialism.


Artificial Islands tests the idea that Britain's natural allies and closest relations are in
these three countries in North America and the Antipodes, through a good look at the
histories, townscapes and spaces of several cities across the settler zones of the British
Empire. These are some of the most purely artificial and modern landscapes in the
world, British-designed cities that were built with extreme rapidity in forcibly seized
territories on the other side of the world from Britain. Were these places really no more
than just a reproduction of British Values planted in unlikely corners of the globe? How
are people in Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and Wellington re-imagining their
own history, or their countries' role in the British Empire and their complicity in its
crimes? And do they have any interest in a union with us?
  • Publisher Name:Watkins Media Limited
  • Product Format:Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781914420863
  • Author:Hatherley, Owen
  • Publication Date:2022-08-09

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