Berfrois

Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

The analysis begins judiciously with the war of 1793-95 and its aftermath...

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‘An examination of cannibalism is bound to induce a species of metaphysical unease’

‘An examination of cannibalism is bound to induce a species of metaphysical unease’

Illustration by Theodor de Bry from Americae Tertia Pars, 1592 From Cabinet Magazine: Have you sensed that readers have had trouble coming to terms with how there could be an intellectual history of cannibalism at all? I think cannibalism is challenging not just on an epistemological level. The cannibal provokes...

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Subhas Chandra Bose is dead (a safe bet as now he would be 113)

Subhas Chandra Bose is dead (a safe bet as now he would be 113)

From History Today: On September 16th, 1985, in a dilapidated house in Faizabad, formerly the capital of Oudh province in India, a reclusive holy man known as Bhagwanji or Gumnami Baba (‘the saint with no name’) breathed his last. Locals had long suspected that he was none other than...

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Southern Whirl

Southern Whirl

Living Outside History | by Noel Poke

American Scholar

 History never seemed of much interest to Picayune, Mississippi, just north of New Orleans. Here, published history is only what people claimed to remember about the past.

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Self-becoming under Stalin

Self-becoming under Stalin

Everyday ideology: Life during Stalinism | by Jochen Hellbeck

Eurozine

Why have postmodernist historians of life in totalitarian societies failed to explain how the Soviet and Nazi regimes generated absolute commitment? 

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Inscrutable George

Inscrutable George

His Highness | by Jill Lepore

New Yorker

"Every biographer of George Washington has remarked on his inscrutability; every generation has tried to figure him out..."

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