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The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...
Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.
In sum, Arnab Chatterjee's work on British women writers of the late 18th century representing India is a balanced work, and one making good use of recent postcolonial musings about empire ...
“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.
Donald Trump invokes little-known 18th-century wartime law to ... The act was passed shortly after the U.S. had won its freedom from the British Empire and when they stood on the brink of war ...
While excavating an 18th Century British fort recently discovered in St. Augustine's Lincolnville, archaeologists say they unearthed a moat.
The most she can manage is to point to an 18th-century African monarch abolishing the slave trade as evidence that the British do not deserve any plaudits for their abolitionist efforts across the ...
The first inhabitants were slaves brought over by the French in the 18th century, and the territory was handed over by France to the British as part of Mauritius in 1814.
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...