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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa. In ...
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The complicated history of Queen Victoria's colonial godchildren, who became symbols of assimilation and civilization in the British Empire

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated ...
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British Colonization of Africa | Animated History

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. “The British Empire in Africa.” ...
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Worldwide Devastation

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...