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Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar

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The Civilization of the Irish

The brutal displacement and dispossession of thousands of Irish that preceded the displacement of first nations from their lands based on Petty's political arithmetic is testament to the violence engendered by methods of measurement. What did the British team unfinished about their settler colonial project in Ireland once military rule had been accomplished? "I'm not qualified to answer that because I think I would need to know a lot more about Irish history than I do"

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