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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on November 10, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on October 26, 2024October 25, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on October 20, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

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

Published on October 12, 2024October 9, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

‘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

Published on September 28, 2024September 27, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on September 21, 2024September 19, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on April 20, 2024April 19, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on April 13, 2024April 12, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on April 7, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

**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

Published on March 30, 2024March 28, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. Universal Pictures.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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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

Published on March 16, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on February 24, 2024February 24, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on February 3, 2024February 3, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on January 27, 2024January 26, 2024 by CIGH Exeter

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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on December 2, 2023December 1, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A special Henry Kissinger edition of this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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