This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From global Guyana to turning points in world 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

Demonstrators protesting a treaty to return control of the Panama Canal to Panama, U.S. Capitol building, Washington, D.C, Sept. 7, 1977. Warren K Leffler—US News & World Report Magazine Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

A US presidential inauguration special, 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

‘Warrants a whole other documentary’: Patrice Lumumba’s adviser and speechwriter,Andrée Blouin, centre, from Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. Photograph: Modern Films

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat to how China joined the global capitalist economy, 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

Grounding Presence. Alexandre Desane [left] in the lead role. Photograph: Atlas Film Production © Photograph: Atlas Film Production

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From a complicated history of slavery and resistance to the True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, 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

A Russian flag near a U.S. flag at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Wednesday. (Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

How Trump’s re-election could upend 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

Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from Ten Views of the Island of Antigua, William Clark, 1832.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, 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

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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World Trade Organization, Geneva, September 2021, Denis Balibouse / Reuters

From abandoning the WTO to a return of 1930s-style totalitarian politics, 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

‘A permanent feature of our domestic life’ … Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition screenshot. Photograph: Microsoft

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From abandoning the delusions of empire to decolonizing sanctions, 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

Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From a new critical report about the Windrush scandal to Black women comrades in the struggle for liberation, 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

Kamala Harris with Ben Crump, Doug Emhoff and Al Sharpton in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 3. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy, 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

Peace pin badges. from the Peace Museum’s collection

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From starvation as a weapon of war to repaying Haiti for independence ‘reparations’, 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

Algerian demonstrators arrested,hands above their heads, in Puteaux during peaceful demonstration, about to be questioned by police, during the Algerian war. October 17, 1961. FERNAND PARIZOT / AFP

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From how to define a war crime to shipping’s shadow 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

Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan delegates at the first Bandung Conference, Java Island, Indonesia, 23 April 1955 (AFP Files)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From food weaponization’s deadly comeback to the short-lived NATO-Russia honeymoon, 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

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. Universal Pictures.

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

From how Shōgun exposes the brutal realities of colonization to how ‘Made in China’ became American gospel, 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

West Belfast 1985

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the two faces of free trade to the history crisis as a national security problem, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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