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The inner life of empires : an eighteenth-century history

Rothschild, Emma, 1948-

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\"This original and remarkable book ... is the story of the Johnst ones, 11 Scottish siblings whose lives spanned the entire 18th-century British Empire--from Britain to Africa and the Americas. By extraordinary perseverance, Rothschild (a Harvard historian) has excavated the tiniest tidbits about them from a vast array of repositories and collections, and used these shards of evidence to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Enlightenment, commerce, empires, revolutions, nation states, sentiments, family relations, and slavery. Her tale often holds the mysteries of a fictional account, especially about a key slave whose life after shipment to the American colonies is lost in the mists of time.\"--Publishers Weekly.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Johnston family. / Great Britain Colonies. / Scotland Biography.
• ISBN: 9780691148953, 0691148953, 9780691156125

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JV1027.R68 2011	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE