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Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's colonial past has been the subject of passionate debate. Tristram Hunt goes
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A history of the colonial creation of the city is told through the stories of 10 influential urban centers left in the wake of the British Empire, drawing on hi
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