Richard Gott
Articles by Richard Gott
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Ideas
A talent to provoke. Richard Gott grapples with a revisionist's defence of empire
- 27 January 2003
Empire: how Britain made the modern world Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 392pp, £25 ISBN 0713996153
Culture
Art of the state
- 20 January 2003
Today's government has exchanged visual propaganda for verbal spin. But the political poster will survive as an evocative art form long after the passions that created it have faded
Books
The tyrant with a mobile phone. Saddam Hussein and his regime are better compared with Sicily's Corleone family than with Hitler and the Nazis. Take away the hostile rhetoric, and he is simply a typical tribal chief from Mesopotamia who happens to be at home in the modern, urban world. Richard Gott on the latest batch of books about Iraq
- 09 December 2002
Saddam Hussein: an American obsession Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn Verso, 320pp, £9 pbk ISBN 1859844227 Saddam: the secret life Con Coughlin Macmillan, 350pp, £20 Targeting Iraq: sanctions and bombing in US policy Geoff Simons Saqi Books, 242pp, £14.99 War Plan Iraq: ten reasons against war on Iraq Milan Rai Verso, 240pp, £10 pbk The West and the Rest: globalisation and the terrorist threat Roger Scruton Continuum, 187pp, £12.99
Books
In durance vile. Richard Gott on stories of Britons in distress overseas
- 14 October 2002
Captives: Britain, empire and the world 1600-1850 Linda Colley Jonathan Cape, 438pp, £20 ISBN 0224059254
Ideas
Living through an age of extremes. "Faced with the alternative of socialism or barbarism, the world may yet regret that it decided against socialism." Richard Gott enjoys a sturdy defence of the Enlightenment
- 23 September 2002
Interesting Times: a twentieth-century life Eric Hobsbawm Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 447pp, £20 ISBN 0713995815
Culture
Magnum bogus
- 26 August 2002
Why is the Foreign Office sponsoring an exhibition of photographs depicting eastern Europe? Richard Gott discovers that old-fashioned agitprop is alive and well
World Affairs
The first cause
- 22 July 2002
Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies Icon Books, 231pp, £7.99 ISBN 184046383X
Politics
A silent majority finds its voice
- 24 June 2002
Venezuela's hidden people - the majority who are of Indian or black descent - have found a champion in Hugo Chavez. But can he survive?
World Affairs
Foreign affairs lite, with added Buruma. Richard Gott on the latest book from a mandarin journalist who wanders the world delivering Olympian opinions on all the major issues. But what has he got to add?
- 10 June 2002
Bad Elements: Chinese rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing Ian Buruma Weidenfeld, 384pp, £20 ISBN 0297643134
World Affairs
In Saddam's land, they hold their breath
- 13 May 2002
Iraq's streets are full of people buying and selling goods from all over the world. Sanctions have failed. But now the people wait for war. Richard Gott reports from Baghdad
