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Sandra Liwanowska
Sep 1, 202415 min read
From Ritual to Commodity: How Does the Study of Drugs Illuminate Early Modern Globalisation?
In a phenomenon historian David Courtwright termed the "psychoactive revolution," the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the...
Sean Paterson
May 24, 202319 min read
Dreams of Empire: British travellers on the fringes of the Chinese world, 1688-1826
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...
Emilė Petravičiūtė
May 24, 202321 min read
Relating Global and Local: Historical Perspective on Inequality
Introduction Leading scholars of inequality today, such as Branko Milanovic[1] or Frank Stilwell[2] amongst others, tend to structure...
Sean Paterson
Mar 26, 202313 min read
‘Yet doe the Chinoyse much exceede us’: images of China in an early modern English atlas
Early modern English perceptions of China, as expressed in surviving print materials, occupy a liminal intellectual zone, suspended...
William Minter
Sep 29, 202225 min read
The 'Globalisation' of the Hellenistic Age
As with most cultural processes in the ancient world, whether they be ethnic identities or cultural exchange and interconnectivity, the...
Tanya Singh
Aug 11, 20229 min read
Early Modern Catholicism: Not as European as Once Imagined
The Catholic Reformation, or Renewal began with the Council of Trent 1545 to 1563, and endeavoured to update the Catholic Church to an...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Aug 3, 202219 min read
Between Control and Compromise: The Establishment of Spain’s American Empire
The Spanish Empire at its height spanned most of the American continent, from California to the southernmost reaches of Chile, and...
Will Kingston-Cox
Jul 4, 202214 min read
How important was Soviet support for Ethiopia's Derg regime?
The Derg,[1] or the Provisional Military Administration Council (PMAC), was the revolutionary military regime, led by Haile Mariam...
Leandro Vargas Llosa
Jun 20, 202215 min read
New Latin American Cold War Historiography and the coups of Guatemala in 1954 and Chile in 1973
Recent Latin American Cold War historiography attempts to transcend scholarship in the 80s and 90s that tethered the region’s Cold War...
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