What troubles Professor Biggar is that among British historians, too, it is now axiomatic to see the empire as a means to enslave and immiserate other peoples for the benefit of a small white elite.

让 Biggar 教授感到困扰的是， 在英国历史学家中，现在不言而喻的看法是， 帝国是为了少数白人精英的利益而奴役和折磨其他民族的一种手段。