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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership / eds. Nick Draper, Rachel Lang

Review Date: 
14 Sep 2017

In 1833, after centuries of resistance and rebellion by enslaved people, decades of popularly-mobilized antislavery protests, and years of economic struggle on colonial plantations, England’s Parliament initiated the process of slave emancipation in the British Empire.

The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century / Serge Gruzinski

Review Date: 
30 Apr 2015

Serge Gruzinski compares Cortés’s actions in Mexico with suggestions for the invasion of China, adumbrated by Portuguese captives in Canton in 1522–3.