{"product_id":"artificial-islands-adventures-in-the-dominions","title":"Owen Hatherley: Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions [2022] paperback","description":"Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive\u003cbr\u003eposturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of\u003cbr\u003eits former colonial \"kith and kin\" across the seas? Why be in a Union with your\u003cbr\u003eimmediate neighbours, when you could instead be in a trans-oceanic super-state with\u003cbr\u003eour old friends in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of\u003cbr\u003ethe 'CANZUK Union', the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the\u003cbr\u003ewhite-majority 'Dominions' of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong\u003cbr\u003eborders and climate change denialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtificial Islands tests the idea that Britain's natural allies and closest relations are in\u003cbr\u003ethese three countries in North America and the Antipodes, through a good look at the\u003cbr\u003ehistories, townscapes and spaces of several cities across the settler zones of the British\u003cbr\u003eEmpire. These are some of the most purely artificial and modern landscapes in the\u003cbr\u003eworld, British-designed cities that were built with extreme rapidity in forcibly seized\u003cbr\u003eterritories on the other side of the world from Britain. Were these places really no more\u003cbr\u003ethan just a reproduction of British Values planted in unlikely corners of the globe? How\u003cbr\u003eare people in Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and Wellington re-imagining their\u003cbr\u003eown history, or their countries' role in the British Empire and their complicity in its\u003cbr\u003ecrimes? And do they have any interest in a union with us?","brand":"Hatherley, Owen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44109605470498,"sku":"9781914420863","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hatherley-owen-owen-hatherley-artificial-islands-adventures-in-the-dominions-2022-paperback-9781914420863-57627916599635.jpg?v=1726830124","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/artificial-islands-adventures-in-the-dominions","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}