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Europe’s expansion amounted in part to a deliberate assault on the modernizing ventures of other peoples and states. Perhaps it was not Europe’s modernity that triumphed, but its superior capacity for organized violence.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
David Graeber on Debt, Service, and the Origins of Capitalism
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In the latest NLR—Perry Anderson seeks clues to the politics and method behind @adam_tooze's oeuvre
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and then continued on to America to spread the word of
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Furcht und die Politik der Verletzlichkeit
Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)
The first book of modern Hebrew literature in the Yishuv was written by Ze’ev Yavetz, who moved to Palestine in 1887. Deeply unsettled by those immigrants who seemed insufficiently committed to re-creating the Jew, he used his sharp pen to attack those who he felt failed to appreciate that the decision to come to Palestine ought to flow from a
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