The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
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The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
Dynamite made from fish oil was one weapon deployed by an assertive Japan in the early 20th century
Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.
Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.
The interwar years in Latin America saw a remarkable flourishing of left-wing political thought aiming to challenge US dominance. That could offer lessons for today.
Emerging from a swirl of sonic influences, reggaeton began as Panamanian protest music long before Puerto Rican artists turned the genre into a global phenomenon.
“When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that a classics scholar says has been relevant for centuries – including right now.
How various factions respond to the Trump administration’s threat to be the de facto ruler of the country could quickly inflame domestic tensions and lead to conflict.
Imperial nostalgia correlates strongly with support beyond the main parties: positively with Reform and negatively with the Greens.
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
A series of lectures on decolonisation sheds new light on contemporary conflicts.
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
History is full of examples of what happens when airpower takes on a logic of its own.
The U.S. administration’s designs to grab Canada, the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza are now in plain view.
The US has largely managed its empire in a more ‘gentlemanly manner’ than many historical empires, says a US foreign policy expert. Trump is turning back the clock.
Granting tech leaders direct control over government functions fundamentally alters the relationship between private power and public governance.
A ‘new’ country wouldn’t have many more people or a much higher standard of living – but it would have a lot more natural resources.
Why do we see German and Roman characters speaking like they’re from London? The blame lies partly with film directors – and more broadly with British imperialism.
The name Africa was given to the continent by European explorers, exploiters, slavers and colonists. It ignores the indigenous people and their accomplishments.
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Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Fellow in International Law, Lund University
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Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Regents' Professor Emeritus of English, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in South Asian history, University of Exeter
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
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Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Criminal and Military law and the Law of Armed Conflict at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of East Asian History, University of York