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Miryam1968
When Francis #Fukuyama, in his 1992 book, disclosed the "end of history" #thesis, he became a world celebrity.The formulation was simple, but devastating for the left: faced with the evidence
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Liam Hogan
Limerick1914
British slave traders forcibly shipped approximately 5.5 million enslaved Africans into their Caribbean colonies over a 180 year period yet when slavery was abolished just 800,000 enslaved people remained. (Beckles)https://twitter.com/ayoca
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Kulveer ⚡️
kul
Always nervous when tweeting about US politics because:a) Silicon Valley hates it &b) I’m from EnglandThe has given me a lot, and I hope someday to become a citizen.That
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St Judas.
GreatHeretic
#GoaInquisitionThe principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church
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Akiko Shoji
AkikoShoji
1/11. #WSTC7 #ContSesh2 Seabirds accumulate & transport contaminants, acting as biovectors. Biovector transport is nicely illustrated on this fig from Blais et al. 2007. But how effects at distant locations
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Stonewall Jackson
1776Stonewall
i'm going to tell the true story of the Civil War. This is going to be a long trend, but worth reading. This is not coming from a Southerner by
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Laleh Khalili
LalehKhalili
Just finished @thariel's extraordinary _Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality_. There are some books that both make you feel smarter simply through proximity with the author's thoughts; AND
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Nicholas Molodyko
molodyko
Oliver Cromwell’s policy became more and more commercial and territorial expansion was the goal ever in view. In fact, while fundamental motives for his policies were economic, his overall policy
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TJ Martinell
TJMartinell
We're witnessing the disconnect between people's belief that a central gov. should rule over 330 million & their reaction when that power is utilized (just not in their favor). It's
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Austin Goblinson
osutein
Talking with @diaryofaneditor about this and it’s interesting that so many staple American foods are German and Italian in origin, and how few are British. The US began as a
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Sankul // Dalit Lives Matter
sankul333
Gandhi exposed as a racist, casteist, misogynist, etc: a thread Gandhi believed in the Aryan race supremacy, same as Hitler. He did not fight racism when he was in South
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Rob Knox
pashukanist
It's Lenin's birthday, which means it's time to go re-read of my fave Lenin texts, particularly some of the lesser-known ones. 'A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism' full of
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Kat Callahan
JezebelKat
Not sold on this at all. My own experience in Straya was a lot like a look at what might have happened if the American Colonies lost the Revolution. We
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François Dos Santos
frdossant
Il y a 45 ans, débutait le débat à l'Assemblée Nationale sur la nationalisation de l'électricité en Outre-Mer. L'occasion de revenir sur l'essentiel de cette histoire, un oubli de 1946
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🇬🇩Harmony | BLM ✊🏾
nutmeg_princess
It’s the fact that it’s the FIRST hit on the search for me. It’s the fact that ALL my school history books are written by West Indians for me. It’s
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Amit Schandillia
Schandillia
[QUICK THREAD: ADDITION TO 4TH OF JULY]1/5Interested in a crazy example of the "butterfly effect"? Here:The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 killed almost a third of the Bengali population. This
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