
The Blood Never Dried

This is, it’s worth emphasizing, unique. The British weren’t confused as to whether there was a British Empire. They had a holiday, Empire Day, to celebrate it. France didn’t forget that Algeria was French. It is only the United States that has suffered from chronic confusion about its own borders. The reason isn’t hard to guess. The country percei
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world’s most troubled areas today.
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How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999 (Critical Human Rights)
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