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    <body><![CDATA[A glimpse into an “empire” in which diversity and education were apparently valued in ways possibly unknown on earth since 1492. This version of history can help us stop and pause and re-evaluate everything we have been calling “progress.”]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book that inspired so much modern scholarship on this era and place. Here's how multiculturalism works.]]></body>
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