“It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the shins one afternoon because you helped an old lady across the road in the morning.” HistoryMoralityImperialImperialismsm Book:Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain Source: Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain