World

Europe may have been transforming itself in the early modern period but the rest of the world was not standing still. In this section we can learn about the emerging United States, the wealth and power of the Mughal Empire and the economic impact of the slave trade, alongside the cultural destruction and changes it made on the lives of the enslaved. Read more

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  • Joseph Priestley's American Dream

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    Joseph Priestley ended his days in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. This is one of the most delightful spots in the eastern United States. It is situated at the confluence of the North Western and North Eastern branches of the Susquehanna, one of the great rivers of North America, which winds its way...

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  • 'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

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    Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...

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