Category: The Blog
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Podcast: The economics of coronavirus with Adam Tooze and Chris Clark on The History of Now
The History of Now podcast: Economics of coronavirus The first episode of The History of Now, a podcast from the Faculty of History at the…
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Video: What is Global History? A Roundtable with Sebastian Conrad at the Institute for Advanced Study
Thursday, February 20 Institute for Advanced Study Since its publication in 2016, Sebastian Conrad’s What Is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016) has been read and debated not…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Advert for passage on Empire Windrush from Kingston, Jamaica to the UK, The Daily Gleaner, 15 April 1948. Photo credit: Wikipedia. Yehor Brailian Daniel Rey,…
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What We’re Reading This Week
The 1918–1919 “Spanish flu” pandemic resulted in dramatic mortality worldwide. Photo credit: Wikipedia. Kristie Flannery Timothy Brook, “Blame China? Outbreak orientalism, from the plague to…
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What We’re Reading This Week
The flags of Zanzibar and Kenya were added this afternoon to the 111 flags already flying in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New…
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Doing Global History: Research Field Guide to the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
Archivo General de la Nación: Mexico’s Black Palace by Edward Anthony Polanco This blog post was originally published on H-LatAm www.eapolanco.com Edward Anthony Polanco is…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard aboard Trieste, 1960. Photo credit: Wikipedia Matthew Bowser Reuters, “Anti-China sentiments, racism spreading along with coronavirus”, The New York Post Ian Sample, “No…
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What We’re Reading This Week
1770: Lieutenant James Cook claims east coast of Australia for Britain. Painting by John Hamilton. Photo credit: National Museum of Australia Chloe Bordewich Houri Berberian, “Roving…
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Unexpected Guests? The Soviet Union and the History of Global Capitalism: An Interview with Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Capitalism versus Communism. To many, the latter half of the twentieth history was deeply shaped by the confrontation between these two ideological and socioeconomic systems.…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Pride and Prejudice film. Photo credit: chilimovie.com Rustam Khan “The Divided God: A Letter to Hong Kong”, Chuang Pankaj Mishra, “Liberalism according to the Economist”,…