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Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting

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Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire 9780300189445

Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while

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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty 9780691208503

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean 9780812294279

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean depicts the human drama in which enslaved Africans struggled against their en

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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism 0674988124, 9780674988125

“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a s

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Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean 9780812202427

Historians, by relying on biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial Britis

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Year of Fire Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid 9781783608966, 9781350251243, 9781783608980

‘We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the c

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Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean 0812234677, 9780812234671

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of pa

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Sinews of empire: a short history of British slavery 9780385063395

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Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu 9781800734654

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty childre

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