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History faces forwards as well as backwards. As we prepare for the second day of our #ImperialInequalities conference today, and our new @FPCThinkTank
piece is published, I've blogged on whether and how the UK could move beyond its imperial legacies
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piece is published, I've blogged on whether and how the UK could move beyond its imperial legacies
taxjustice.net/2020/12/04/the…
Registration for day 2 of #ImperialInequalities is still open, and the events get underway in just over three hours
Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla @nssylla opens day 2 of #ImperialInequalities, with a keynote on 'Colonial macroeconomics: Then and now' in which he highlights the commonality between imperial approaches and contemporary economic policies 
We're now starting the first panel of our #ImperialInequalities conference, with @JuliaMcClure_ examining the role of 'welfare imperialism' in the Spanish empire.
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Here's the full first panel #ImperialInequalities, with @JuliaMcClure_ (U. Glasgow) David Brown (Trinity) @madeline_woker (Brown U.) & Laura Channing (Cambridge) and moderated by @GKBhambra
At #ImperialInequalities, @JuliaMcClure_ highlights how ideas of 'charity' and 'welfare' were central to justifications for empire; and also created opportunities for private individuals to capture benefits, including through the abuse of charitable foundations to hold wealth
The first panel for #ImperialInequalities today (1.30pm GMT) is on 'Institutional & Fiscal Issues' looking at ways in which imperial states were financed... often thru processes of dispossession & raising mortgages on appropriated land (eg Ireland)...
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Papers: Welfare imperialism in Spanish Empire by @JuliaMcClure_; The great gage in Ireland by David Brown; Financial autonomy in French empire by @madeline_woker; & The composite colonial state in Sierra Leone by Laura Channing
The second panel (3.15pm GMT) is on Welfare, Taxation, and Resistance - it explores how beneficiaries of imperial extraction attempted to justify wealth inequalities using notions of the common good, spiritual economy of charity, philanthropy, or welfare provision
