The New Yorker - @NewYorker: 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. http://nyer.cm/16QFePM
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