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A new imperial history accents the multi-directional movements of people and ideas within the empire, the presence of “poor whites” and their ambiguous status, and the centrality of the periphery. [...] Students interested in contemporary issues such as the global movement of capital, global governance, the ecological impact of industrialized economies, the fate of indigenous people, an emergent world culture, risk and security, communications and the binding of space and shrinking of time, and a host of similar matters can gain perspective from a study of the British Empire and the legacies, con. [...] Keep in mind the temporal and local complexities of the empire, because the circumstances of time and place are inadequately represented in the readings. [...] 13) Decolonization and Legacies: Costs of Empire and Legacy for Historians 10 December a) Costs "The Costs of Defending an Empire: The British and Colonial Taxpayer," chapter 5 in Lance Davis and Robert Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 145-65; "British Subsidies to the Empire: The No. [...] Discuss the debate over the decline of indigenous populations focusing on the South Pacific, 1870-1950 (Use the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand: rsnz.natlib.govt.nz).