Global History – Globalistan https://globalistan.org Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 Of an Englishman True https://globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/ https://globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/#respond Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:06 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=553 Brilliant alphabet book from the days of Brittania.  Printed in Holland in 1899. Available here via (the ever entertaining) Chapati Mystery But then there’s this: And you wonder if Mrs. Ernest Ames is being tongue and cheek…

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]]> https://globalistan.org/of-an-englishman-true/feed/ 0 What to make of the Noughties? https://globalistan.org/what-to-make-of-the-noughties/ https://globalistan.org/what-to-make-of-the-noughties/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:45:18 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=465 Nitpickers would say that the decade is not over yet (it ends on Dec 31, 2010) and valid questions would undoubtedly be raised about the benefits of dispensing history in bite sized doses. However, none of this would stop us in indulging ourselves in a bit of pop-history. The Noughties (as British tabloids imaginatively christened […]

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]]> https://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/feed/ 1 Ian Buruma on Enlightenment, Language and Multiculturalism https://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/ https://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:10:38 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=135 I spent a large part of today watching Prof. Ian Buruma’s brilliant lecture series at Princeton university entitled ‘No Divine Rights: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents’ which I am posting here. Buruma is a scholar of great versatility. His subjects range from a fictional-biography of an Indian cricketer-prince, to works on European and Japanese […]

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