The Utilitarian Balance Sheet Approach to the Legacy of Colonialism

One of the broad form critiques of your book is that it takes a quote balance sheet approach to the legacy of colonialism. So there is Jonathan from the beginning I have never argued that you can pile up the evils of colonial rule, he says. And then pile up the good things the railways, the spread of medicine, the emancipation of slaves and decide for example that the good outweighs the bad. "I conclude that you cannot find anything in the British Empire that approximated Nazism"