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The examination of colonialism has been both a happy and an unhappy hunting ground for all those concerned with either praising or declaiming against it; it has long been a highly politicised field of commentary and analysis.
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Rai, M. (2014). Is There a Classical Colonialism?. In: Healy, R., Lago, E.D. (eds) The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450753_2
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