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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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A silk map of the German/Swiss border, featuring detailed escape instructions and clearly designated “SECRET.” BRITISH LIBRARY/PUBLIC DOMAIN
A silk map of the German/Swiss border, featuring detailed escape instructions and clearly designated “SECRET.” BRITISH LIBRARY/PUBLIC DOMAIN

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From how refugees have the power to change society to how millions of secret silk maps helped POWs escape captivity, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From uncovering secret Cold War wiretaps to why the Nazis studied US race laws for inspiration, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Map: Rand McNally.
Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Map: Rand McNally.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the End of the Anglo-American Order to Europe’s dark colonial history, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From what is good about globalization to the unnatural history of progress, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From thinking historically to the end of the end of history, here are this week’s top picks 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

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James Gillray’s 1805 cartoon, The Plumb Pudding in Danger, depicts prime minister William Pitt and Napoleon Bonaparte carving up the world Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images
James Gillray’s 1805 cartoon, The Plumb Pudding in Danger, depicts prime minister William Pitt and Napoleon Bonaparte carving up the world Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the great unraveling of the world order to the myth of western civilization, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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A 1915 German poster, entitled L’Entente Cordiale, depicting a British spider weaving a web over Europe. Photograph: John Ellis/The British Library
A 1915 German poster, entitled L’Entente Cordiale, depicting a British spider weaving a web over Europe. Photograph: John Ellis/The British Library

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Soviet maps of Brighton to a more accurate map of the world, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Peace activists march in protest against the Vietnam War in 1968. (AP Photo/Bill Ingraham)
Peace activists march in protest against the Vietnam War in 1968. (AP Photo/Bill Ingraham)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the rise of America’s reactionary right to the rise of illiberal nationalism in Japan, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From rethinking Pan-Africanism to the decolonial origins of global human rights, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From how to be a global historian to toppling statues of Gandhi, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Commodore Perry’s landing at Shimoda (Shizuoka), 1854

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From censoring images of war to uncovering authoritarian internationalism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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The Mad Tea Party, 1885, Hand-colored proof. Morgan Library & Museum.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From imprisoning ‘bad’ historians to Alice in a world of wonderlands, here are this week’s top picks 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

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One of many maps portraying impending inter-imperialist apocalypse, via
One of many maps portraying impending inter-imperialist apocalypse, via Charnel- House.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From teaching indigenous studies to Hong Kong’s forgotten independence movement, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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Copy of the Asian-African Conference Bulletin held at the Foreign Affairs Archives in Belgium. The Indonesian government produced a Bulletin on the Bandung Conference, intended to bolster its prestige, 1955.
Copy of the Asian-African Conference Bulletin held at the Foreign Affairs Archives in Belgium. The Indonesian government produced a Bulletin on the Bandung Conference, intended to bolster its prestige, 1955.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Christian imperialism to 1945’s forgotten heroes of Paris, here are this week’s top picks 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

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From uncovering the brutal truth about the British Empire to the false economic promise of global governance, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →