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History Seminar

Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

April 6, 2023
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
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History Seminar

Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

April 6, 2023
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
Kojo Koram
Speaker
Kojo Koram
Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Birkbeck University of London
Jamie Martin
Discussant
Jamie Martin
Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

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Mary D. Lewis
Mary D. Lewis
Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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Laura Falloon
Laura Falloon
 
April 6, 2023
4:30pm - 5:45pm
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Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions

Kojo Koram will discuss his new book, Uncommon Wealth (John Murray, 2022), which explores how following decolonization, British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled former "dependencies" with debt.

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