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In Defence of the British Empire

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Professor Nigel Bigger is the author of Colonialism, a moral reckoning. In his new book he makes the case that contrary to modern progressive dogma, the legacy of the British Empire has a lot of good mixed in with the bad. Professor Bigger: "The problem we have with this issue ... is the problem of definition" He says critics of colonialism only care about recent European and American empires.

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