Category: Interviews
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The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War: An Interview with Nicholas Mulder
The 2008 global financial crisis and the dislocations it caused sparked a renewed interest in economic and international histories of capitalism, globalization, and internationalism and…
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Decoding South Asia on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition: An Interview with Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose
Earlier this year in August the three post-colonial states of South Asia—India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the British Raj…
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Dancing in the Battle for the Mantle of the Politically “Modern”: An Interview with Victoria Philips
Credit: LSE “It is that we continue to live as if this were the 20th century, even though we have formally moved to the 21st…
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Inclusion and Exclusion in International Ordering: An Interview with Glenda Sluga
The image of two men, sitting awkwardly across each other in a solemn conference table, suddenly sprouted everywhere in my Twitter feed last winter. As…
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Ana María Otero-Cleves and writing about the Global from the Periphery: Interview with the Winner of the Toynbee First Book Manuscript Workshop Competition (ENGLISH)
Minero i Negociante. Medellin (1852) by Henry Price. Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia. 2022 Winner of the Toynbee First Book Manuscript Workshop competition: Ana María Otero-Cleves…
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Cómo escribir Historia Global desde América Latina: Entrevista con Ana María Otero-Cleves ganadora del Toynbee First Book Manuscript Workshop Competition (2022) (ESPAÑOL)
Minero i Negociante. Medellin (1852) by Henry Price. Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia. Ganadora 2022: Ana María Otero-Cleves (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) Comentaristas del manuscrito: Toynbee…
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How China’s Environments Changed its Modern History: An interview with Micah Muscolino
It is hard to imagine the environmental calamities of our age without invoking China today. The “world’s factory” – as it is colloquially and sometimes…
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Violent Fraternity: An Interview with Dr. Shruti Kapila
Historical considerations of modern South Asia have been marked by a predisposition towards political, material and socio-cultural analyses. Seldom has the remit of ideas as…
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A More Expansive Atlantic History of the Americas: An Interview with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s work intermingles the colonial histories of the Americas—the United States and Latin America. Cañizares-Esguerra’s expansive historical project is Americanist, yet not in the…
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Money and Colonialism in Canada: An Interview with Brian Gettler
On 30 April 2013, live from the International Space Station, the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield unveiled a new $5 banknote. It featured some of Canada’s…