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Empire Round the Web (12 July 2015)
Discussion published by Charles V. Reed on Sunday, July 12, 2015
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"Mau Mau" (RadioLab)
http://www.radiolab.org/story/mau-mau/
RadioLab program on Mau Mau and "the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever
known."
"Competing Visions of the British Empire" (Ben Franklin's World Podcast)
http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/036/
Abigail Swingen discusses her book Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of
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the British Atlantic Empire (Yale University Press, 2015).
"The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed" (The
Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed
A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave
owners, including relatives of Gladstone and Orwell, writes David Olusoga.
"World wide web? Map resizes countries by number of internet users" (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/jul/10/world-map-web-users-oxford-internet-institut
e?CMP=fb_gu
Oxford Internet Institute maps Internet usage across the world.
"Omar Sharif: Lawrence of Arabia star dies aged 83" (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33483877
"Charleston Shooting Exposes America's Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past" (Imperial and Global
Forum/H-Empire)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/5293/discussions/74777/blog-charleston-shooting-exposes-ameicas-pro-apartheid-cold-war
Britain, France, and their Roads From Empire: A New Talking Empire Podcast (Imperial and
Global Forum)
http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2015/07/06/britain-france-and-their-roads-from-empire-a-new-talkingempire-podcast/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Talking Empire podcast on Martin Thomas' book Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads
from Empire (Oxford, 2014).
"Era Ends as South Carolina Lowers Confederate Flag" (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/south-carolina-confederate-flag.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp
=cur&_r=1
"Thomas Piketty accuses Germany of forgetting history as it lectures Greece" (Washington
Post Wonkblog)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/06/thomas-piketty-accuses-german-of-forgetting-history-as-it-lectures-greece/?tid=sm_fb
"Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa" (Center for Public Integrity)
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http://projects.icij.org/fatalextraction/
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