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7 Mar 2013Once upon a time, as every schoolboy knew, the history of the British Empire was the history of great men.
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4 Jun 2021In recent decades historians, postcolonial theorists and feminist scholars have demonstrated how, in a variety of geographical settings, gendered stereotypes supported the conquest and domination of overseas territories by European colonial regimes.