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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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Guns, empires and Indians
Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America. By David J Silverman.
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Can’t Wait Forever
Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny discuss their new film, The Native and the Refugee, which investigates how the spatial contexts of Native reservations in the U.S. and Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East incubate resistance to settler colonialism. By Aviva Stahl.
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Ban the burqa? Scrap the sari? Why women’s clothing matters
British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.
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Stop Calling the United States a ‘Banana Republic’
The cavalier use of the term, by everyone from Robby Mook to Vladimir Putin, is morally obtuse. By Patrick Blanchfield and Patrick Iber.
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Nathanael Greene: The Revolution’s Unconventional Mastermind
Short on manpower and equipment, and relying on a loose combination of regular army troops and local militia, Nathanael Greene wrested the South from the British and saved the Revolution. By James A. Warren.
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The Tiger of Mysore
In the 18th century, the Muslim warlord Tipu Sultan terrorised Hindu southern India and clashed repeatedly with the British. Today, his legacy is contested, but he was far from the nationalist that some have claimed, writes Zareer Masani.
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Why American revolutionaries admired the rebels of Mysore
If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. By Blake Smith.
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India Overtakes Britain as the World’s Sixth-Largest Economy
What was once Britain’s “crown jewel” has outshined the former empire. By Robbie.gramer.
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The Divisions of Cyprus
Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels... By Perry Anderson
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The Coming War on China
A warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a 'contingency,' says the Pentagon. By John Pilger.
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Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg ‘the face of neocolonialism’ over land lawsuits
Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his 700-acre Kauai estate, alarming neighbors who see growing inequality and possible displacement. By Jon Letman, Julia Carrie Wong.
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The Algerian War of the Wizards
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin vs. the Marabouts. By Aaron Dabbah.
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Worse Than Tuskegee
In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment. By Sushma Subramanian.
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The Fiction of U.S. Isolationism
The old canard is an obstacle to a realistic, fact-based approach to foreign policy. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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We are the war on terror, and the war on terror is us
”This is a sea change.“ By Thanassis Cambanis.
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In Berlin
‘Colonialism as a form of violent foreign rule was legitimised by a racist ideology of European superiority,’ says the board that greets you at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin… By Daniel Trilling.
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A Murderous History of Korea
“The idea that North Koreans generally have of Americans may be strange, but I must say, having lived in the USA around the end of the Korean War, that nothing can equal the stupidity and sadism of the combat imagery that went into circulation at the time. ‘The Reds burn, roast and toast.’” — Chris Marker. By Bruce Cumings.
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The Emperor Of Air
How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king. By Jacob Mikanowski.
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Britain’s imperial ghosts have taken control of Brexit
May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain. Marc-William Palen.
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