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The Truth About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar
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The Importance of Empire
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We seem to have forgotten that other countries had empires too. Empire has been an historical phenomenon since the 4000 BC in Mesopotamia. Arab-studdit, Africans did it, the Chinese still do it. The Comanche did it in the southwest of the US and of what's now the 1800s. So there's a strange focus on European empires, which we could talk about. What is Empire about? I mean, often it's about security. But in the case of the British Empire, trade, major motive.
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