Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading This Week
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht YEHOR BRAILIAN Lynn Meskell, “What’s the Point of UNESCO?,” History Today. Stephen Bush, “Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JOSEPH SATISH Nazimuddin Siddiqui, “The Discourse of Doubt: Understanding the Crisis of Citizenship in Assam,” Economic & Political Weekly. Sagar Dhara, “Indian Environmental Movements: Why…
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What We’re Reading This Week
MEGHNA CHAUDHURI Daniel Immerwahr, “How the US Had Hidden its Empire,” The Guardian. Greg Grandin, “What’s at Stake in Venezuela?,” London Review of Books. Alexander…
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What We’re Reading This Week
SEAN PHILLIPS Christian Mueller, “The Invention of the Silk Road,” Asia Dialogue. Eric Alterman, “The Decline of Historical Thinking,” The New Yorker. Jill Lepore, “A…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JOSHUA MILSTEIN Bart Zantvoort, “On Hartmut Rosa and the Acceleration of Social Change in Modernity,” JHIBlog. Ahmed Elsayed, “The Battle over the Memory of Egypt’s…
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What We’re Reading This Week
MEGHNA CHAUDHURI Alf Gunvald Nilsen, ‘How Can We Understand India’s Agrarian Struggle Beyond “Modi Sarkar Murdabad”?,’ EPW. ‘What Europeans Talk About When They Talk About Brexit,’ London…
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What We’re Reading This Week
NATALIE BEHRENDS Danielle Jackson, ‘Memory and the Lost Cause,’ Longreads. Peter Brown, ‘Between Two Empires,’ The New York Review of Books. Daniel Rodgers, ‘The Uses…
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Dominic Sachsenmaier’s Laudation for 2019 Toynbee Prize winner Lauren Benton
Dominic Sachsenmaier, President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, delivered the following laudation in awarding the 2019 Toynbee Prize to Lauren Benton, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JOSEPH SATISH Matan Rochlitz, “Liberation of the Soul Through Diet – How a Jain Ascetic Lives,” Aeon. Rajan Krishnan, “Patel Statue and Pillage of History,”…
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What We’re Reading This Week
COLLIN BERNARD Alex Traub, “India’s Dangerous New Curriculum,” New York Review of Books. Helen Thompson, “The Unintended Euro and the Problem of Italy,” Speri Comment.…