| Book Review | Journal of World History, 17.2

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Book Review

The Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. By ROBERT BICKERS. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 384 pp. $34.50 (cloth).

Robert Bickers has written a book providing a new perspective on empire, as seen and experienced by one of its servants, a police constable employed by the Shanghai Municipal Police, the body that kept order in the International Settlement mostly for the benefit of its thriving and prosperous business interests. This view of empire, as seen from the bottom rung, shows the clear divisions between those who are recognized as pukka, enjoying enormous privileges, many at the expense of the Chinese, and those other whites who must struggle interminably against their countrymen's class discrimination, snobbery, and their own false illusions.

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