There is so much to love about this book, I'm not sure where to start. There's a very clear, explicit association: power comes from our differences, and our diversity. The book reeks with a love of language and culture, and with a careful, systematic, structured description of (and dismantling of) imperialism. It emphasizes that with a long enough lever, a small group can move the world - and that knowledge workers in imperialist nations have that lever, if they can only notice. I found it fascinating, painful, and informative - and the pace picked up as it went. Wholeheartedly recommend this book, especially to tech workers like me, and language lovers.

Content warnings for death, a lot of death, and casual colonial racism, a lot of that too.