HIST 3420 Lecture 11: Understanding Empire 1
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This has a sustained legacy on the british legacy and the sense that the british e one big thing. It is not associated with a political view. The map shaped many generations of the conception of the empire. What is misleading of the picture of the map. It was the first step to lightening through the virtues of cleanliness. It is a purpose driven that there is intention and the intention has a set of values a spread of civilization and the flip side. How is civilization defined, if you are european and it is about whiteness and the of civilization. Race and empire- the empire is a set of ideas, it is part of our racial destiny. Empire is driven by racism and it shapes policy and expression of the empire. Left the burden, it is not solely about race but it does incorporate the discussion a race.