This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From rethinking the history of US humanitarian interventions to the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, 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

The aircraft was built in 1935 by German pilot Herr Ludwig Weber and Ethiopian engineers. Photograph: @AbiyAhmedAli

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the return of Ethiopia’s first plane to an Asian American argument for solidarity, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial and Global History

U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan at the U.N. Security Council discussing a “nonaligned” resolution to strongly condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Bettmann Archive

Marc-William Palen
University of Exeter

From Frantz Fanon as inspiration to the only woman to join the yakuza, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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Smoke from bombs dropped by U.S. planes near Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on 25 July 1973. (Associated Press)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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A special Henry Kissinger edition of this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

DINA agent Michael Townley

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the Confessions of a DINA hit man to the monster of the mainstream, 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 the deadly African legacy of the US War on Terror to the Northampton shoemaker who caught the Auschwitz commander, 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

Colston’s statue being brought down by activists, 2020. Greenhill 22 / WikipediaCC BY

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From South Africa’s forgotten freedom fighter to the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict, 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

The British Capture of Trinidad, 1797, public domain

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the myth of Prussian militarism to dramatising the nervous state, 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

Egon Schiele’s “Russian War Prisoner,” currently at the Chicago Institute of Art, is one of three artworks sought by investigators. Handout/Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From the new colonialist food economy to strolling into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory, 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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From when the US helped kill democracy in Chile to who decided that French food was best, 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

Japanese marines from the gunboat Un’yō landing to attack Yeongjong Castle, Sept. 20,1875.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the waves of empire to unsilencing the Haitian Revolution in US hip hop, 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

El Ojo que Llora, a memorial commemorating the victims killed during the internal conflict of Peru, opened in 2005. Wikimedia Commons by Lapalabranecesaria

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation 20 years on to liberalism’s sinful Cold War birth, 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

Haqqi al-Azm (centre, dressed in white) was an influential Ottoman bureaucrat before serving as prime minister of Syria in the 1930s [Creative Commons/Wikipedia]

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Putin’s history lessons to the perils of forgetting the Ottoman past, 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

Port of London Authority Cold Store, Smithfield Market. Wikimedia Commons.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Chile’s coup at 50 to the imperial history behind the London meat industry, 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

Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg at a demonstration against the Vietnam War, Berlin. (Rogge and ullstein bild / Getty Images)

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the long death of slavery to how Rosa Luxemburg anticipated the end of capitalist globalization, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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