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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
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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

Published on September 9, 2023September 8, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

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

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

Published on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on August 19, 2023August 18, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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

Published on August 5, 2023August 3, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on July 15, 2023July 14, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

A statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin casts a shadow in Volgograd, Russia, June 2018. Toru Hanai. Reuters

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the Cold War trap to the Jamaican roots of the British industrial revolution, 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 July 1, 2023June 30, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

**Mughal men drink an unidentified beverage in a 17th century painting later recreated as a drawing by Rembrandt (Public domain)**

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From unravelling the Windrush myth to the infinite possibilities of Afrofuturism, 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 June 3, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From chow mein and chips to how slavery research came under fire, 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 May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds, 1941. From left to right: Solomon Linda, Gilbert Madondo, Boy Sibiya, Gideon Mkhize, Samuel Mlangeni and Owen Sikhakhane.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the pastor as pugilist to another side of W. E. B. Du Bois, here are 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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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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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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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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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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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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From the Cold War trap to the Jamaican roots of the British industrial revolution, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From unravelling the Windrush myth to the infinite possibilities of Afrofuturism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From chow mein and chips to how slavery research came under fire, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the pastor as pugilist to another side of W. E. B. Du Bois, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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