empire

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Federal Agents, “Insurrection,” and the Long, Bloody History of U.S. Counterinsurgency

  by Rachel Ida Buff

  Now, on the streets of U.S. cities, federal agents join militarized police in waging war on Americans who are exercising their lawful rights of freedom of speech and assembly. There is no doubt that the results endanger us all.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  It is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776

  by Elizabeth Kolsky

  American independence unleashed a hemispheric conquest by the United States and a renewed commitment to empire by Great Britain. Both projects relied on racism, violence, and the devaluing of black and indigenous lives. 

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• SOURCE: The Activist Historian Review
  1/7/20
  

  The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of Impeachment

  by DJ Polite

  It is misleading to call impeachment "justice" when it reflects the priorities of empire.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  12/11/19
  

  Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire

  by Julia Fine

  The complex origin of Worcestershire sauce reveals the ways that imperial ideals and aspirations — both in Britain and the colonies — structured not only British food habits, but also the ways in which companies presented such foods to the public.

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• 9/1/19
  

  A New History of Islamic Empires Defined Through Illustrious Cities

  by Erik Moshe

  "History constantly refreshes and reinvents itself and that is its abiding power. It has a built-in resistance to obsolescence."

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/16/19
  

  Trump, America, and the Decline of Empires

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Trump is not an isolated phenomenon--historically or globally. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  Accessed 1/4/19
  

  Historian Daniel Immerwahr Explores What America’s Territories Reveal About American History

  In “How to Hide an Empire,” Daniel Immerwahr explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48

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• 6/17/18
  

  A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine

  by Tom Engelhardt

  The U.S. military has taken us through the gates of hell.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  10-13-16
  

  Guns, Empires and Indians

  by David J Silverman

  Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America.

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• 1-27-14
  

  Herman Melville's Other Masterpiece was a History of Baby Seal Clubbing -- And American Empire

  by Greg Grandin

  "Benito Cereno" is one of the darkest stories in American literature, and based on the life of the seal-clubbing ancestor of FDR.

• SOURCE: National Review
  6-5-13
  

  Conrad Black: A Weak U.S.

  Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M.

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• And Then There Was One

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Image via Shutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

• SOURCE: National Review
  3-14-13
  

  Conrad Black: A Post-American World Order

  Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and the recently published A Matter of Principle. He can be reached at cbletters@gmail.com.

• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1-15-13
  

  David A. Bell: The War in Mali is a Reminder of France's Grand Malaise

  David A. Bell is Professor of History at Princeton University. Born in New York City in 1961, he received his A.B. from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton.It remains to be seen whether France's military intervention in Mali will be considered a military success, but it already seems possible to count it a political one. The war has earned support from across the French political spectrum, President François Hollande has garnered acclaim for his leadership, and the French public broadly supports the country's stated humanitarian mission. The intervention recalls the days when “la grande nation” laid claim to an ambitious international role, particularly within its former colonial empire.But in today's France, this portrait of unity and resolve is actually something of an aberration. Far from expressing a confident sense of mission, the French public has recently been more inclined to a sense of decline, malaise, paralysis and crisis. And it is at least partially justified.