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Not available in 2019/20 HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900. This information is for the 2019/20 session. Teacher responsible ...
By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...
In Barbados, Sanghera shows how the island was stripped of its indigenous people, who had lived there for 2,500 years — part of a total native Caribbean population that numbered some 3mn in 1700 ...
The Truth About Empire promises to be “a shield against the assault on historical truth.” Its authors might do well to visit Col. Pennycuick’s memorial at Camberley before it, too, is toppled.
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.
T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.
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