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- Critiques of Edward Baptist
- Critiques of The History Manifesto
- Did inequality cause the First World War?
- Did the "Invisible Blockade" against Allende work?
- Economic growth in ancient Greece
- Fascism was not left-wing!!!
- Greece from Post-war orthodoxy to "Democratic Peronism"
- Ideology & Human Development (on Cuba's social development)
- Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence
- Markets & famines: Amartya Sen is not the last word!
- Nazi political economy
- Random Thoughts on Robert Allen's theory of the Industrial Revolution
- State Capacity & the Sino-Japanese Divergence
- Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
- The Bairoch conjecture & the "tariff-growth paradox" of the late 19th century
- The Calico Acts: Was British cotton made possible by infant industry protection from Indian competition?
- The Napoleonic Blockade & the Infant Industry Argument
- Various posts on slavery
- Was slavery necessary for the Industrial Revolution?
- Where do pro-social institutions come from?
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Category Archives: History
La longue purée
In The History Manifesto, two historians, Jo Guldi of Brown and David Armitage of Harvard, urge their peers to turn away from microhistory and go back to doing Big History in the longue durée tradition of Fernand Braudel. The book also doubles as a rant against the … Continue reading
Edward Said on Bernard Lewis
Just quoting my favourite unintentionally hilarious passage from Said’s Orientalism.
Posted in History, Middle East & Islam
Tagged Bernard Lewis, critical theorists, Edward Said, Orientalism
17 Comments
“The Great War and Modern Memory”
An excerpt from Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory.
Posted in History, Literary Criticism
Tagged Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell, The First World War, The Great War
5 Comments
Azar Gat’s Nations
I saw Razib Khan‘s review of Azar Gat’s Nations : The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism. Without intending to make it that long I posted a 1000-word comment there. Then I realised I could have posted it here.
Posted in Ethnicity, History, Political Development
Tagged Azar Gat, Ethnicity, Nation-State, Nationalism, Nations
7 Comments
The Mystery of US Behaviour in the World
(Part 4 of 4) I argue that American behaviour on the world stage defies any rational explanation. I also question whether the United States has derived much economic benefit from its activist and interventionist approach in the world.
