Avner Offer, Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Winner of the 1992 Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Commonwealth and Imperial history

"Offer has opened up a rich seam of enquiry, as well as producing a masterly and fascinating book...a magnificently original piece of research" - Economic History Review

"Dr Offer's breadth of vision is remarkable, his scholarship is challenging and his eye for the telling detail is keen. In range and depth this book would be hard to equal; and its style and structure make it something of a rarity, for it is as enjoyable as it is important." - Times Higher Educational Supplement

"a brilliant, deeply disturbing and intellectually restless account... For students of the period, this book is full of insights... Offer has no competition at all in his marvellous discussion of the imperial dimension of agrarian history, or of its poltiical and diplomatic meaning. Overall, this book will open a new debate... It is historical writing of the highest order: shrewd, compassionate, occasionally moving, always alive." - Rural History

"This is a superb piece of historical writing." - Journal of Economic History

"Offer has opened up a rich seam of enquiry, as well as producing a masterly and fascinating book...a magnificently original piece of research" - Economic History Review

"Dr Offer's breadth of vision is remarkable, his scholarship is challenging and his eye for the telling detail is keen. In range and depth this book would be hard to equal; and its style and structure make it something of a rarity, for it is as enjoyable as it is important." - Times Higher Educational Supplement

"a brilliant, deeply disturbing and intellectually restless account... For students of the period, this book is full of insights... Offer has no competition at all in his marvellous discussion of the imperial dimension of agrarian history, or of its poltiical and diplomatic meaning. Overall, this book will open a new debate... It is historical writing of the highest order: shrewd, compassionate, occasionally moving, always alive." - Rural History

"This is a superb piece of historical writing." - Journal of Economic History