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  • New book questions supremacy of humans in empire history

    Mar 6, 2025 9:15 am by Heather GernenzCultural Exploration
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    A new collection of essays asks what histories of empire look like when the species supremacy of humans is questioned rather than assumed. A Q+A with Antoinette Burton, a Swanlund Endowed Chair of History at Illinois.