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In a 1954 poem called ‘Spain in America’ (España en América), the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara likened Castillo Armas’s coup in Guatemala to General Franco’s onslaught against the Spanish Republic two decades earlier. “Do you remember, Guatemala, those July days in the year of 1936? Of course you do.” Spain and Guatemala had both been democracies, […]
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As a historian of war, I’ve always been curious about how wars have been fought–not just on the impersonal levels of strategy and operations, but also in the much more intimate terms of the everyday. I am especially interested in that most primal and immediate of human concerns: what and how did soldiers eat? Where […]
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‘The powerful ruler is today unable to steer the press in his directions simply through his will. Words of command echo as empty calls in the empire of typesetting and rotation machines,’ observed the Fränkischer Kurier on 14 July 1906. When media celebrities-turned-politicians Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky bring us live reality TV from the […]
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The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]
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G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics. His innovations as a political theorist are less widely recognised, but are of great historical significance. His work establishes the basic concepts of subsequent German political […]
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“We will have to undertake one of the most difficult tasks facing the Church in our day,” wrote Cline Paden, the young pastor of the non-denominational, evangelical Church of Christ in Brownfield, Texas, before departing for Italy in late 1948. “That of replanting New Testament Christianity in a land where it has not existed for […]
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Capable states that enforce the rule of law, secure property rights, and provide public goods are prerequisites for development, but where do they originate? Last year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to scholars who argued for the role of colonial institutions. Opportune as the reckoning with colonialism might be, it has diverted our attention […]
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How many witches did the Spanish Inquisition burn in Mexico? My name is Martin Nesvig and my new book The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico discusses witchcraft in Mexico. The answer to the question above is: ZERO. There were no mass witch panics in Mexico. Rather, witchcraft was a kind […]
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