My new book Imperial Measurement: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism is a rebuttal of the so-called “Williams Thesis”, or at least, of its popularised, “wokified” version: the idea that it was the profits earned from the slave-trade and colonial exploitation which financed the Industrial Revolution.
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Imperial Measurement: am I biased?
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My new book Imperial Measurement: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism is a rebuttal of the so-called “Williams Thesis”, or at least, of its popularised, “wokified” version: the idea that it was the profits earned from the slave-trade and colonial exploitation which financed the Industrial Revolution.