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Pax Economica – UK Publication Day, In the News & Upcoming Book Events

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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It’s been a whirlwind since Pax Economica was published in the USA in late February, and hopefully more to come after today, the official publication day for the UK/Europe.

I am truly grateful for all the support, endorsements, and reviews that Pax Economica has already received from across the political spectrum, including making the New Yorker’s “Best Books” 2024 list.

In case Forum readers are interested, included below are details regarding some upcoming book events for April and early June, including the UK book launch on Wed, April 24 (5pm) hosted by the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Also, I am based in Venice, Italy, until early June, so for any interested Italian subscribers to the Forum, please just get in touch via email. I’d be delighted to visit and discuss the book.

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RAI Book Launch – ‘Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World’ – Wed. 24 April

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Book Launch

Wed. 24 April, 17:00

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB

Open to the public

Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea, Palen explores how, beginning in the 1840s, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twentieth century, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians envisioned free trade as essential for a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course, this vision was at odds with the era’s strong predilections for nationalism, protectionism, geopolitical conflict, and colonial expansion. Palen reveals how, for some of its most radical left-wing adherents, free trade represented a hard-nosed critique of imperialism, militarism, and war.

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