 because I felt it came organically out of my teaching and the lectures that I give. And I've been working on assembling that, you know, for so long. So that was one goal. But the other kind of probably more important intellectual goal for me was that I noticed, you know, I'd always had this kind of discomfort as a historian working on the British Empire where I had this suspicion that there was something kind of, that in some way my own discipline of history was,