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The main reason that the British Empire was able to sustain itself for more than two centuries, the historian Caroline Elkins maintains, was that the British model of state violence came wrapped in a “velvet glove” of liberal reform. https://t.co/wWV1XTAVfB — PolitiTweet.org

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Most of what we know, or think we know, about Casanova is what he tells us in his epic, 12-volume memoir, “Histoire de Ma Vie.” The memoir represents “Casanova’s ultimate seduction—of the reading public,” Judith Thurman writes. https://t.co/ML9VaRWADl — PolitiTweet.org