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Hunter, Dick, Collins, Brenda, Walvin, James, Williams, Samantha, Purdue, Olwen, Kelly, James, Harrison, Amy, Jones, Peter, Banton, Mandy, Burnard, Trevor |
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Family & Community History; Apr2023, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p92-108, 17p |
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Although it is estimated that, in 1900, about ten per cent of the population were "attached" (2) to temperance, and most communities had anti-drink campaigns, the literature which aimed to recruit and maintain adherents and promote change has received less critical attention than writings associated with another major Victorian working-class movement, Chartism. The evidence for Scotland and slavery is everywhere, from street names of Glasgow to the plantation ledgers and bookkeeping papers of Scottish accountancy found throughout libraries and archives of Britain and the English-speaking Americas. It positions the book between the two transformations of the end of the Middle Ages and the threshold of modernity, with the growth of capitalism and spread of global empires, 1450-1800; and suggests a new definition of poverty: a poverty of rights, a poverty of wants, or a poverty of opportunities. Anxious to avoid international attention, Britain delayed granting Mauritius independence until 1968 and did not discuss US negotiations with Mauritian leaders until the eleventh hour - then putting pressure on them to accept (agree is too strong a term) the separation from Mauritius of the Chagos archipelago which would become a new colony - the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). [Extracted from the article] |
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