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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The Atlantic Cable as the Eighth Wonder of the World - Image credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-USZC4-2388
The Atlantic Cable (1866) depicted as the Eighth Wonder of the World – Image credit:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division,
reproduction number LC-USZC4-2388

Marc-William Palen
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From teaching contemporary comparative slavery to 19th-century globalization and hopelessly drunk KGB spies, here are this week’s top reads in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →

This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on by CIGH Exeter

Marc-William Palen

There has been a great deal of imperial/global news this week:

Photo from a BBC News Night interview with Stuart Hall.
Photo from a BBC News Night interview with Stuart Hall.

*Jamaican-born scholar-activist Stuart Hall passed away at the age of 82. He was the ‘god-father of multiculturalism‘ and a leading cultural theorist. He was also founding editor of the New Left Review and, as the Guardian puts it, he insisted Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →