Author: Marc-William Palen

Lecturer in Imperial History, University of Exeter

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Portrait of Indian poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore. Cherishsantosh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Portrait of Indian poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore. Cherishsantosh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen

From remembering the first lyricist to win the Nobel to W.E.B. Dubois and world revolution, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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Second Global Humanitarianism Research Academy, 10-22 July 2016

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Fabian Klose
Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz 
Beginning JulyUnbenannt 10, the second Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (GHRA) will  meet for one week of academic training at the University of Exeter before continuing with archival research at the ICRC Archives in Geneva. The Research Academy addresses early career researchers who are working in the related fields of humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, peace and conflict studies as well as human rights covering the period from the 18th to the 20th century. It supports scholarship on the ideas and practices of humanitarianism in the context of international, imperial and global history thus advancing our understanding of global governance in humanitarian crises of the present.

The GHRA received again a huge amount of applications from an extremely talented group of scholars from more than sixteen different countries around the world. The selection committee considered each proposal very carefully and has selected these participants for the GHRA 2016:

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Never Again! East German National Front election poster 1958.
Never Again! East German National Front election poster 1958.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen

From Krushchev’s 1956 charm offensive to democracy in East Germany, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

History Repeating Itself? Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party

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An 1883 Puck cartoon depicting the Republican Party standing before the Tariff Question Sphinx. The Independent Party Solution approaches in the distance, representing Oedipus, who, in Greek mythology, solves the riddles of the Sphinx.
An 1883 Puck cartoon depicting the Republican Party standing before the Tariff Question Sphinx. The Independent Party Solution approaches in the distance, representing Oedipus, who, in Greek mythology, solves the riddles of the Sphinx.

Marc-William Palen
University of Exeter

Free trade has become the Republican elephant in the room, thanks to Donald Trump.

The GOP front-runner has helped make trade one of the hot-button issues of the 2016 presidential race. And it’s tearing the Republican Party apart – just like it did in the wake of the U.S. Civil War.

Back then, a third-party run by free trade Republicans put the GOP on a protectionist course that lasted 100 years, as I’ve explored in a recent book on the topic. Could it happen again? Continue reading “History Repeating Itself? Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Senegal festival 1966

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen

From 21st-century death merchants to the Cold War’s ‘black world’, here are this weeks top picks in imperial and global history.

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