Empire: the big historical questions
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The World Is Very Complicated, Right?
Lydia Olivet says academic life in Britain is not as sympathetic to supporting big projects. There's a need to go back to simplicity and to have a single, almost singular narrative that is comforting for the population, she says. She adds: "It always seemed to me that it's a better election of politicians and pundits to tell us that the world is very simple"
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