Category: The Blog
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Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition 2023: Call for Applications
Credit: New York Public Library The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support early career scholars in global history at a pivotal moment in…
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Publishing Books on Global History and Politics: An Interview with Caelyn Cobb, Editor at Columbia University Press
DANIEL LOPRETO: What was your path to book publishing and becoming an Editor at Columbia University Press? CAELYN COBB: I became interested in media and…
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Glenda Sluga named President and Heidi Tworek Vice President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation
The Toynbee Prize Foundation is honored to announce that the Board of Trustees has unanimously confirmed Prof. Glenda Sluga as the Foundation’s next President and…
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What We’re Reading This Week: May 18 2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/2/women-march-across-us-in-support-of-abortion-rights Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut Kenneth I. Juster, Mohan Kumar, Wendy Cutler, and Naushad Forbes, It’s Time for America and India to Talk Trade,…
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What We’re Reading: May 11 2022
https://www.dw.com/en/africas-cfa-franc-colonial-relic-or-stabilizing-force/a-48908889 Antoney Bell, McGill University Cat Zakrzewski and Craig Timberg, “Biden’s tech agenda gets a reality check as Elon Musk buys Twitter,” The Washington Post.…
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What We’re Reading: May 2022
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.edu%2Fobject%2Fw-h-auden%253Anpg_NPG.88.70.2&psig=AOvVaw11quvzTM9ZGr7UxPmekTYK&ust=1650742997592000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA0QjhxqFwoTCKiLh4e3qPcCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD Christopher Szabla, University of Hong Kong Nicholas Guilhot, “Cold War Liberalism is Back,” Jacobin “Notions such as the ‘free world,’ the ‘West,’ and the ’empire…
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What We’re Reading: April 27 2022
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/pros-cons-british-empire-balance-sheet-history-imperialism.html Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut Dexter Fergie, How American Culture Ate the World, The New Republic Tibetans who followed the Chicago Bulls (or the…
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What We’re Reading: April 21 2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/4/7/haunting-canada-boarding-school-shot-wins-world-press-photo Antoney Bell, McGill University Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “The Marxist Who Antagonizes Liberals and the Left,” The New Yorker. An article about Adolph Reed, a social…
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What We’re Reading: April 8 2022
Título: El Chorrillo 20 de diciembre de 1989 / Año: 2021 https://elfarodelcanal.com/aristides-urena-ramos-y-la-invasion-a-panama/ Collin Bernard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mark Mazower, “Russia, Ukraine and Europe’s 200-year quest…
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What We’re Reading: March 30 2022
Credit: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/errant-indian-missile-nearly-led-to-pakistan-retaliatory-strike Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut Christopher Clary, “The Curious Case of the Accidental Indian Missile Launch,” War on the Rocks While Ukraine, understandably,…