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British people are proud of colonialism and the British Empire, poll finds
The British public are generally proud of their country’s role in subjecting the world to colonialism and the British Empire, according to a new poll. At its height in 1922 the British Empire governed a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s total land area, but its legacy divides opinion.
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“In search of our better selves”
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ as Totem Transfer Narrative. By Dallas Hunt.
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On (Not) Facing Britain’s Imperial Past at Tate Britain
“More broadly, looting committed by the British in India was so vast in scale that Powis Castle (in Wales) alone holds more Mughal artefacts ‘than are on display at any one place in India – even the National Museum in Delhi.’” By Louis Allday.
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How Psychology Helped Support — and Subvert — the British Empire
All too often we draw a clean, hard line between science and dogma — and between reforming unjust structures and validating them. By Jack Meserve.
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Coolie Women Are in Demand Here
“Grierson concluded that the female emigrants consisted of four groups: prostitutes, the wives of men who had already been to the colonies and had come back to fetch them, destitute widows with no one to take pity on them, and ‘married women who have made a slip, and who have either absconded from their husband’s house with or without a lover, or who have been turned out of doors by their husbands.’ The widows were blameless. The colonies would gladly take them.” By Gaiutra Bahadur. (Spr. ’11)
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Welcome to the land that no country wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate things.
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The Middle East Correspondent Who Predicted the Rise of ISIS Tells Us About His 30-Year Career
In conversation with [Patrick Cockburn] one of the most respected Middle East correspondents in the world. By Yohann Koshy.
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Paintings that Get (Kind of) Close to South Africa’s Colonial Aftermath
KINDERHOOK, NY — Meleko Mokgosi’s eponymous solo show, well installed at The School, Jack Shainman gallery’s outpost in Kinderhook, New York, will hit your sweet spot if you’re in the m…
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If we return Nazi-looted art, the same goes for empire-looted
Today, as the world reconsiders the role played by colonial-era imagery and profits in our lives through actions such as removing celebratory statues and seeking to give reparations to the descendants of slaves, it is also time to take into account the histories of violence and subjugation behind the aesthetic pleasures of European museums. By Erin Thompson.
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How a colonial blunder grew into a part of the War on Terror
A diplomat in British India blundered a border. The consequences continue to shape world politics. By Rafia Zakaria.
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The Ghost of King Leopold II Still Haunts Us
Belgium Colonization and the Ignition of the HIV Global Pandemic. “HIV-1 was ignited in Leopoldville, but the resulting HIV global pandemic is also the apparition of a grotesque and horrific legacy—the European infection of mass historical trauma and the devastation of Congolese health wrought by King Leopold II, the Force Publique, and Belgian colonization.” By Dr. Lawrence Brown. (Apr. 20, 2015)
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Chevron Wins, But Ecuador’s Amazon Remains an Unmitigated Environmental Disaster
Once again, corporate and government interests win; the environment loses. By Jason Koebler.
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The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform
Joshua Ehrlich on an obscure text found on the shelves of a Bengali library and the light it sheds on the idea of the public in 19th-century Calcutta.
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Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire
The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past. By Marc Parry.
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‘This Ship is Sinking’ Says Former Bush Official
The Empire Files
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Bond or Bourne: Normative vs neurotic imperialism
British liberal imperialism became normative to its age as its American successor is typically amnesiac and neurotic. By Hamid Dabashi.
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Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States
By Lauren Carasik. (Aug. 16, 2016)
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Meet the 800-Year-Old Golden Rhinoceros that Challenged Apartheid South Africa
Treasures from pre-colonial southern Africa were suppressed because they contradicted apartheid's official history.
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The fatal expense of American imperialism
The United States is getting the choice between war and peace profoundly wrong, squandering vast sums of money and undermining national security. By Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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The British forgery at the heart of India and China’s Tibetan border dispute
How a visit by an American ambassador to Arunachal Pradesh has endorsed an illegal boundary at a stolen town. By Peter Lee.
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