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An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the
The Enlightenment on Trial
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Pages: 385
Authors: Bianca Premo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the
The Scandal of Empire
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Pages: 413
Authors: Nicholas B. Dirks
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and a
Modern Things on Trial
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Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding lig
Unsound Empire
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Catherine L. Evans
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the