Isn’t that the audience shot from that Brexity edition of Question Time? (View Post)

The slavery-dependent South stagnated while that anti-anti-slavery North industrialised, and grew wealthy. Discuss. (View Post)

I think this is broadly right. But some caveats: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807, whereas economic historians seem to keep pushing back the Industrial Revolution “lift off” later and later, pe… (View Post)

A sovereign Bengal here is ahistorical, since the East India Company merely supplanted Mughal suzerainty. I agree with your last sentence but again, it is not the hard claim of “deliberate destructio… (View Post)

Memo to Britain. Spend some fucking money on capital investment. It seems baked into the DNA that it is better to employ a bunch of serfs cheaply. (View Post)