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West should address ‘colonisation of the present’ and not focus on past, argues David Van ReybrouckCities in the global north that curb their carbon emissions are doing more to address colonial injustices than those who focus their efforts on taking do…
Read MoreThe academic’s discursive, wonderfully enjoyable account of South Asia’s journey from a British colony to three independent nations is a classicThe sudden rise of India over the past few years has taken many western observers by surprise. The Indian ec…
Read More教科書では書けない韓国歴史 オランダ人が記した真実、李氏朝鮮時代の生活と風習「朝鮮幽囚記」ハメル【なるためJAPAN】 Hendrick Hamel, 1630 – 1692 Premodern Korean
Read MoreFrom a Jacobean traveller’s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America• Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below…
Read MoreJournalist and historian of China who went from admiring the regime to being one of its sternest criticsJonathan Mirsky, who has died aged 88, was a prominent American historian of China who switched to journalism and won the international reporter of …
Read MoreCraig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the warIn the summer of 2009, the latest in a long line of US military commanders in Afghanistan commissioned the latest in a long line of strateg…
Read MoreIt is true that before British rule, India was starting to fall behind other parts of the world – but many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itselfThe British empire in In…
Read MoreAuthor of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south AsiaCharles Allen, who has died of cancer aged 80, interviewed the last generation of British administrators of India in 1974 for the BBC ra…
Read MorePatriotic myths are exploded in a vivid pageturner, which considers the Company as a forerunner of modern multinationals, ‘too big to fail’About a century ago, a series of giant murals was unveiled in the Palace of Westminster depicting the “Building o…
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