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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British coloniser

This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgr

This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians’ forum shopping, the legal prac