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The Inner Life of Empires : An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emma Rothschild
- Publisher
- N.J. : Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691156125
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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