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Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

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The History of the British Empire

The british political entity was largely born of and sustained by its imperial project. The very acts of union that brought scotland and england together only happened after scotland's own colonial company failed to establish a colony in what is now panama. You know, the reality is that the legal constitutional relationship between a place like britain and jamaica predates the legalconstitutional relationship in terms of the act of the union, between england and scotland. And if the unification of the two largest nations in the union that we now call the united kingdom r of great britain, is produced by the colonial project, i think that we can't then distance

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