{"product_id":"slave-empire-how-slavery-built-modern-britain-paperback","title":"Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePadraic X. Scanlan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFara Dabhoiwala, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMihir Bose, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eSlave Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlave Empire\u003c\/i\u003e puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, \u003ci\u003eSlave Empire \u003c\/i\u003eshows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Padraic X. Scanlan earned a BA (Hons) in History from McGill University in 2008, and a PhD in History from Princeton University in 2013. He is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora \u0026amp; Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and a Research Associate at the Joint Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has also held appointments at the London School of Economics and Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766785114400,"sku":"9781472142337","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/43d0941305c90b6f961639d88c9a1cc3.webp?v=1780298929","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/slave-empire-how-slavery-built-modern-britain-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}