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  • New book examines animals' role in British Empire, racial politics

    Feb 1, 2021 9:45 am by Jodi HeckelResearch
    “The British Lion’s Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger,” by John Tenniel, was published during the Indian Mutiny, when India rebelled against British rule. Sketch from Punch, Aug. 22, 1857.

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    'Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times,' co-edited by Illinois history professor Antoinette Burton, examines the roles that animals played in the British Empire – both in advancing and in disrupting British imperial power.

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