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Paul Lashmar - Drax of Drax Hall, Inbunden

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Drax of Drax Hall

How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery

Av Paul Lashmar

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'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer'Eloquently reminds us that history is never truly past' - The New Yorker'A family story straight out of Game of Thrones' - Alex Renton, authorWhile the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it. This is the story of the British Empire and slavery told through one family’s grotesque history, and how its legacy is alive and well today.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-20
  • Mått: 236 x 50 x 165 mm
  • Vikt: 742 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 448
  • Förlag: Pluto Press
  • Medarbetare: David Olusoga
  • ISBN: 9780745350516
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Paul Lashmar is Reader in Journalism at City St George's, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain's slave trade in 1999. He has been an investigative journalist in television and print, and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television's World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books. He lives in Dorset.David Adetayo Olusoga OBE is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster and BAFTA-winning film-maker.

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'Drax of Drax Hall is not just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it is an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past. Lashmar’s book is a necessary, damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent.'

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