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The management of empire
Mary Beard • SPQR
To the directors of the London Company they were ‘Peter Floris’ and ‘Lucas Antheuniss’ and their offer was in the nature of a rather intriguing proposal.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
harangue.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
primogeniture.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
indemnity,
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
List upon list crowded the ledger of slavery. The names gathered first on the African coast in tens of thousands of manifests. That human cargo. The names of the dead were as important as the names of the living, as every loss from disease and suicide—and the other mishaps labeled as such for accounting purposes—needed to be justified to employers.
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