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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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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History

Published on February 18, 2023February 18, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

The son of Robert “Whitey” Fuller, director of publicity for Dartmouth athletics, and other children playing football, Dartmouth, 1946. Bettmann/Getty Images

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the purposeful violence of Cold War football to new perspecives during the Indonesian Independence War, 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 January 21, 2023January 19, 2023 by CIGH Exeter

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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“Hare Indian Dog” by John Woodhouse Audubon, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1848). (Whitney Western Art Museum 14.88.2, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyo.)

From Mexico’s lead role in the NIEO to Mexico’s nuclear arms control leadership, 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 19, 2022November 18, 2022 by CIGH Exeter

Piazza del Quirinale during the 1922 March on Rome putting Mussolini in power. Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images.

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter

From fascism’s liberal admirers to how a defender of American Empire became a dissenter, 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 5, 2022November 3, 2022 by CIGH Exeter

*Black lives matter protesters in the Leeds City Centre (Shutterstock)*, *Leeds UK, 14 June 2020*

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the sovereign individual in Downing Street to Queen Elizabeth, colonization, and global perceptions, 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 22, 2022October 21, 2022 by CIGH Exeter

Una Marson recording at a reception for Jamaican technicians working in factories in Britain

Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the nature of J. A. Hobson’s racism to dispelling the myths of Swiss colonialism, 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 15, 2022 by CIGH Exeter

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

From the foods that ‘changed’ the world to the politics of money, 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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From the purposeful violence of Cold War football to new perspecives during the Indonesian Independence War, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From Mexico’s lead role in the NIEO to Mexico’s nuclear arms control leadership, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From fascism’s liberal admirers to how a defender of American Empire became a dissenter, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the sovereign individual in Downing Street to Queen Elizabeth, colonization, and global perceptions, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the nature of J. A. Hobson’s racism to dispelling the myths of Swiss colonialism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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From the foods that ‘changed’ the world to the politics of money, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.

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