Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois (IMAGE)

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Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois

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University of Illinois historian Antoinette Burton, in her new book "The Trouble With Empire," says the British Empire faced a lot more war, protest and insurgency than is often acknowledged in the common rise-and-fall narrative.

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