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"A history of the deep social and economic changes of France, told through the story of a single extended family, from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century"--

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They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast