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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 ending the world’s weirdest border dispute to Russia’s strange world of Soviet nostalgia, 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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The Commune as Seen by Jacques Tardi (“Le cri du peuple”), 2002.
The Commune as Seen by Jacques Tardi (“Le cri du peuple”), 2002.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From when Nazis held mass rallies in Madison Square Garden to colonial-era bear migrations, 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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French armed forces suppress an uprising in colonial-era Algeria. Photograph: Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
French armed forces suppress an uprising in colonial-era Algeria. Photograph: Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the unlikely origins of Russia’s Manifest Destiny to the street food that powered the British Empire, 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 colonial Havana to resurrecting the Japanese Empire, 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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U.S. Marines marching in Haiti, 1934 (Photo: Bettmann/Corbin)
U.S. Marines marching in Haiti, 1934 (Photo: Bettmann/Corbin)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the forgotten Jewish pirates of Jamaica to acknowledging genocide in Namibia, 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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Title of Jürgens’ report on the visit to Japan in the Hitler Youth periodical Junge Welt, February to April 1941

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From historicizing Britain’s post-Referendum depression to digitizing thousands of Afghan periodicals, 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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How phosphates from Morocco nourish the planet

Entrance of a gallery of the mine Khouribga. Photograph from an advertising Chérifien Phosphates Office 1952. EN ANOM. Aix-en-Provence: BIB AOM 4911 // Youssoufia Phosphates. – The achievements of the Office for his daily personal, Rabat: Morocco-Matin 1952.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From placing the American Revolution in global perspective to decolonizing Puerto Rico, 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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turkey-armenia-epa.jpgA memorial in Istanbul to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire EPA
turkey-armenia-epa.jpgA memorial in Istanbul to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire EPA

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Brexit as imperial nostalgia to all things transregional, 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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Central Circular, Dairen, ca. 1940

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Japan’s urban colonial past to sending children through the mail, 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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Karl Polanyi teaching at the Workers’ Educational Association, c. 1939. Sketch by William Townsend.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Karl Polanyi for president to European refugee camps in the Middle East, 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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Pamphlet with analysis of the Cairo conference, by Homer A. Jack, 1958.
Pamphlet with analysis of the Cairo conference, by Homer A. Jack, 1958.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From historians against Brexit to the ‘other’ Bandung, 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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Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1358 (February 1939 – February 1940). British Library, IOR/R/15/1/750/4

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the CIA’s role in Mandela’s 1962 arrest to forgetting the Cultural Revolution, 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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A woman in a traditional hoop skirt walked past graves adorned with Confederate battle flags in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, Brazil. An annual celebration of the area’s many Confederate settlers was held in the cemetery last month. CreditMario Tama/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Confederates in Brazil to Jacobins in India, 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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1930 US advert for canal

An advert for the canal, for the US market, c. 1930, from the Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From empire by collaboration to the rise of the global citizen, 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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Abjad al-ḥarb ʻThe alphabet of warʼ (British Library, COI Archive, ‘Arabic A.B.C.’ PP/1/28L). © British Library, 2016

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From how history can save the global economy to African utopias of the 1960s, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →