{"product_id":"artificial-islands-isbn-9781914420863","title":"Artificial Islands","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of Architectural Book of the Year 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again with us?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtificial 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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?\"A rich cliché-busting book, a model of how to think critically about empire and its contemporary relevance.\" - \u003cb\u003eDavid Edgerton\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the British Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hatherley carries the narrative with an opinionated and entertaining style.\" — \u003cb\u003eRob Greer\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Idler \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hatherley’s accounts of walking Dominion cities display the intuitive feel for place, epigrammatic flair and caustic impatience for cant which make him a successor to the great urban explorers.\" — \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Critic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eOwen Hatherley\u003c\/b\u003e writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for, among others, \u003ci\u003ethe Architectural Review, the Calvert Journal, Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin, the London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of several books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space\u003c\/i\u003e (Repeater, 2018), \u003ci\u003eRed Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e (Repeater, 2020)","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303768674533,"sku":"NP9781914420863","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781914420863.jpg?v=1767721822","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/artificial-islands-isbn-9781914420863","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}