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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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on November 25, 2023November 24, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on November 18, 2023November 16, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

Harvard University, Harvard College Library Harvard-Yenching Library, ss_21432130,
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/images/8001379546/urn-3:FHCL:37108245/catalog

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

Published on October 28, 2023October 26, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

Colston’s statue being brought down by activists, 2020. Greenhill 22 / Wikipedia, CC 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

Published on October 7, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on September 23, 2023September 22, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on September 16, 2023September 15, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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