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**'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__ **'A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structure British history'** Nicholas Guyatt, author of __Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation__ **'Scanlan shows that the liberal empire of the nineteenth century was the outcome of the long encounter of antislavery and economic expansion founded on enslaved or unfree labour. Antislavery was itself the excuse for empire'** Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University **'Fresh and fascinating, a stunning narrative that shows how an empire built on slavery became an empire sustained and expanded by antislavery. . . deftly combines rich storytelling with vivid details and deep scholarship'** Bronwen Everill, author of __Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition__ **'This accessible synthesis of recent scholarship comes

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Author

Padraic X. Scanlan

Publisher

Constable and Robinson

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472142344

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, European History