EAN: 9781472142337

SLAVE EMPIRE - PADRAIC X SCANLAN KARTONIERT (TB)

'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.

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