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if history = people x years

From Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist. SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person’s life is just as much a part of … Continue reading

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Global history: Ian Morris and the Great Divergence

Two of the big questions of global history are why did the industrial revolution happen, and why did it happen in NW Europe? I’ve been partial to the explanation offered by historian Kenneth Pomeranz in his 2000 book The Great … Continue reading

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Sidney Mintz on how Haiti’s history is ignored

In the Boston Review, John Hopkin’s anthropologist Sidney Mintz, author of the classic book, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, writes on about Whitewashing Haiti’s History: Every medium of communication in the world is now overrun … Continue reading

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