Does empire mean slavery and genocide?
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2025
- "There is a kind of collapsing of slavery, genocide, empire, as if they're all the same thing, as if we can talk about them as all a package. And I think that's an unfortunate thing, because that's not the truth about empire."
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Krishan Kumar is a Professor at the University of Virginia. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.
He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cambridge and his postgraduate education at the London School of Economics.
Mr. Kumar has at various times been a Talks Producer at the BBC, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and has held Visiting Professorships at Bristol University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Central European University, Prague, the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Among his publications are Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World”; and Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology.
Mr. Kumar’s current interests focus on empires and imperial peoples. Related interests include nationalism and national identity, Europe, global history, and problems of historical sociology.
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I think it's a very good ideas to cut shorter clips out of the longer presentations/conversations, 2 - 4 minutes would be ideal in my mind - but it's of course a lot of work... So thank you for all you're doing. Greetings from Germany
I think 10 min clips might be better. You can hardly get the idea across in 2 mins. Large soundbites to get this important message out there. We are drowning with disinformation in comments on youtube. People need to be equipped to fight it.
I get the point- But we should also ask the question- When the British abolished slavery in 1834... Was it because it was the "ethical" thing to do? Or was it because at that point industrialization and early mechanization made slaves more of an hindrance than an asset.
We will post a video tomorrow morning addressing this point.
The Eric Williams theory is that the declining economies of the British West Indies led to the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery.
But in the words of Professor Jeremy Black: "the end of slavery reflected ideological and political developments rather than an economic law".
I think i lean towards the ethical thing to do stance.