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I'm Christopher Lighten, this is open source.

Think of the British Empire in a day as a colossal trading company

with the world's number one navy to police its traffic

and pretty much everything,

including about three million slaves to North America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Also a variety of notably addictive substances like opium and oil,

then sugar and tobacco.

It thought of itself as a distinctly liberal empire,

symbolizing the people it exploited and everywhere spreading the language of Milton and Shakespeare.

Free speech and the rule of law.

That is the imperial line that our guest Carolyn Elkins set out to bury

with the official records of a police state and its practice of terror

that ruled half a billion people at Queen Victoria's Dimad Jubilee in 1897.

Carolyn Elkins, this book is on fire.

I don't know that I've ever read a scholarly volume like it,

fueled by rage and it instills rage in your readers from start to finish.

This is your second volume in a way,

the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya,

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