"Bourgeois Radicalism and the British Empire of Liberty w/James Vaughn (2/03/2020 interview)
Platypus member Matt Cavagrotti interviews fellow Platypus member and historian James Vaughn on radicalism in the early modern period. Dr. Vaughn is the author of The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State (Yale UP, 2019), which provides a revisionist account of British imperial expansion and politics during the eighteenth century. [https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Empir...]
This interview was originally recorded for but only partially released by Zer0 Books
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