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Slave Empire

By Scanlan, Padraic X

Slave Empire Politics & History

Slave Empire

By Scanlan, Padraic X

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'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2022-06-28
Publication Date:
2022-06-28
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472142330
ISBN13:
9781472142337
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
320 g
Height:
125 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
34 cm
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