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The British Empire before the American Revolution

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...
The Conversation

2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel

Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had similar backgrounds and led strikingly similar lives. They knew each other, were both ...
Hyperallergic

At British Museum, a Promising But Flawed Start to Grappling With Colonialism

“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection. LONDON — Can public museums ever be decolonized? Is there a way ...
The Conversation

Kenya: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up

It is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. The British government and King Charles ...
The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...