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Paige Sellars
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"Marx himself used the Lancashire cotton industry as the model for volume 1 of Capital (1867) and visited Manchester over twenty times between 1845 and 1880. British cottons both acknowledged and appropriated the global history of cotton fabrics from the Indian subcontinent; the exhibit catalogue identified the English manufactures by the Asian names for the print, dye, or method of production"
— Feb 01, 2026 02:13PM
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Paige Sellars
is on page 106 of 328
He [Mills] famously defined “the best government” as the one that may discern those who were “unfit for liberty” or not capable of self-determination; his ideas on liberal government combined the state’s necessary use of force to maintain “order and progress” with the civil education of people for self-government
— Feb 01, 2026 02:16PM
Paige Sellars
is on page 71 of 328
“Interesting Narrative[connects] to 17th century transatlantic African slave trade and the European colonial development of plantation production in the Americas, [&]settlers conquests of lands and wars with native peoples, and to the 19th century transition from slavery to free labor in which the Chinese and Indians were recruited to British, French, and Spanish colonies throughout the Caribbean &Latin America”
— Jan 31, 2026 02:22PM
