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How ASEAN Lost its Way
Southeast Asia is a sprawling region spread out between the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific to the…
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
In September 1945, shortly before his arrest by Allied soldiers, Japan’s wartime prime minister Tōjō Hideki was asked by an…
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
A Deptford woman named Annie Parker sat in a dank, cold cell in Kent’s Maidstone Gaol in 1879. Jailed for…
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa JamesHoare Thu, 01/18/2024 – 09:53
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
In 1918 the American industrialist Henry Ford undertook an auto-camping road trip in the Great Smoky Mountains at the border…
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
We are familiar with the story of the Indian prince who, in the fifth century BC, devoted his life to…
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
In December 1900 distressed animal lover ‘V.E.N’ informed fellow readers of The Bazaar magazine about a disturbing incident involving his…
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
Was it even a revolt? Afterwards, there were doubts. But in January 1872 the British Empire’s man in Punjab, deputy…
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A History of Phantom Pain
The 16th-century surgeon Ambroise Paré was used to difficult cases. Having honed his skills on the battlefields of his native…
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
‘Small Earthquake in Chile, Not many dead.’ The journalist Claud Cockburn supposedly won a prize for dreaming up this notoriously…
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