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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

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GERMAN ZEPPELIN LOST ABOVE FRENCH TERRITORY, 1917, BY ALBERT MOREAU CREDIT: ECPAD/ FRANCE/ ALBERT MOREAU. 'The Great War as Never Seen Before', Telegraph.
GERMAN ZEPPELIN LOST ABOVE FRENCH TERRITORY, 1917, BY ALBERT MOREAU CREDIT: ECPAD/ FRANCE/ ALBERT MOREAU. From ‘The Great War as Never Seen Before‘, Telegraph.

Marc-William Palen
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From the imperialism of time zones to remembering the Alamo in Japan, 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 Britain’s empire of entertainment to the transnationalism of Black Panther Woman, 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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Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (catalogue reference: FCO 158/6). National Archives.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the Enlightenment’s decolonial future to debating the new history of capitalism, 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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From the Intercept.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From inside Iran’s revolutionary courts to today’s secret Scramble for Africa, 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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“An Aerial Battle.” What France would look like in the year 2000. Jean-Marc Côté, c. 1900

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From an imperial view of women’s suffrage to what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like, 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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Yehudi Menuhin playing with Benjamin Britten, circa 1955. Getty Images.
Yehudi Menuhin playing with Benjamin Britten, circa 1955. Getty Images.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Kissinger’s shadow to endless war, 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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Women in fire masks, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, 1941. Photo by Lee Miller.
Women in fire masks, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, 1941. Photo by Lee Miller. Featured in the Guardian.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the ambiguous legacy of Free Trade England to the long fight for Swiss suffrage, 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 global struggles for racial justice to remembering the Iran-Iraq War, 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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Japanese Americans play baseball at a WWII internment camp. Ansel Adams, "Baseball," 1943. Courtesy of Photographic Travelling Exhibitions.
Japanese Americans play baseball at a WWII internment camp. Ansel Adams, “Baseball,” 1943. Courtesy of Photographic Travelling Exhibitions.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the last outposts of the British Empire to the declassification of a trove of top-secret CIA documents, 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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Aftermath of the Wall Street explosion in 1920. Source: Getty
Aftermath of the Wall Street explosion in 1920. Getty

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From bombing Wall Street to rewriting the history of the Second World War, 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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“De negro é española sale mulato” (A Black Man and a Spanish Woman Produce a Mulatto). Pintura de castas, ca. 1780.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the ‘imperialist’ Second World War to purchasing whiteness in colonial Latin America, 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 a new history of the world to the forgotten soldiers of the Second World War, 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 the memory of Soviet famine to how a Sioux chief was buried in Dresden, 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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Japanese nationalist manga artist Kobayashi Yoshinori depicts children being shocked by the exhibits at Peace Osaka.
Japanese nationalist manga artist Kobayashi Yoshinori depicts children being shocked by the exhibits at Peace Osaka. Asia-Pacific Journal.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the Cuban Revolution that almost wasn’t to the Sushi Craze of 1905, 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 21st-century US filibustering in Africa to how to make a country disappear, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History” →