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Susan Thorne

Susan Thorne

Associate Professor Emerita of History
History
sthorne@duke.edu
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Capitalism and Slavery Compensation

Journal article small axe · March 2012 Featured Publication The Slave Compensation Commission distributed no less than ₤20 million between 1834 and 1845, making compensation “the largest single financial operation undertaken by the British state to date” (270). Nicholas Draper utilizes the Commission’s untapped r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social History and Its Discontents: Gareth Stedman Jones and the Politics of Language

Journal article Social History · May 1992 This paper queries the mounting tide of discontent with social analysis embodied in British history’s recent ’linguistic turn’. Using the trajectory of Gareth Stedman Jones’s work as a basis for discussion, the authors compare the treatment of politics wit ... Cite