A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
4: The Colonial Idea
PROFESSOR GALBRAITH traces the colonial adventure from the Crusades to the present; from the fall of Acre to the fall of Saigon. He looks at the potent myths that sustained colonialism-and the real motives behind them, and at why the end is always so messy, the collapse so inevitable.
Film cameraman HENRY FARRAR Film editor JIM LATHAM Producer MICK JACKSON
Executive producer ADRIAN MALONE