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Colonial History
February 22, 2021
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Kanishk Tharoor
Pankaj Mishra’s Reckoning With Liberalism’s Bloody Past
The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.
February 20, 2013
Alan Taylor
How Ghastly Were the Beginnings of European America?
The Savage New World
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie
Henry Fairlie on What Europeans Thought of Our Revolution
It really was a shot heard round the world.
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