#Colonial

you lie, whose independence?

lowlowtide

dear designers, historians or not, the model of metropolitan open space that Central Park (1857, Olmsted & Vaux) represents was created at the same time as that of Yellowstone (1872,

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

One thing I tried to get across talking about Woodrow Wilson was that, in spite of everything else you may personally hate about him, and there is a lot, his

Claire

ClaireRedacted

A thread with articles on Asian skin bleaching and colourism in Asia, curtesy of my friend Tzvi. Please read and share. When it came to employment, the colonial government tended

Kate Sullivan de Estrada

Kate_SdE

Thread: In this major @ChathamHouse report on the UK's post-Brexit future, India is grouped on the other side of a "new divide in international affairs – between open societies where

Dr Katherine Blouin

isisnaucratis

THIS Thanks, Tori! https://twitter.com/eidolon_journal/status/1334903558022508549 Can we address the cruelty and violence of many Classics programs' language expectations and translation exams? This colonial legacy is doing a great job

Gert Huskens

gerthuskens

Forgotten histories of Belgian imperialism.During the 19th century, Belgian imperialism did not only affect the Congo, a whole list of other countries were seen as potential colonies. I'll share a

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Ok, this all starts, as most stories do, with a baby being born to some people who were from some part of the British Empire because holy shit did those

jacq

uncrushedvelvet

Bringing back this socialist feminist thread:As marxist feminists, we seek not only to describe gender but to change it. with this goal, our focus is on the material & historical

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

glasgow_sugar

Early indications that the weekend's Times article has disturbed the hagiography around James Watt. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/da2c9752-acee-11ea-adef-7962e28cd764?shareToken=b9e698f095b72c249a05a5731946c83c I don't think th

Alex Simon

AlexGSimon

THREAD I was excited to see the NYT editorial board take on the colonial undercurrents in foreign aid. Then I read the piece, and wound up even more frustrated than

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3mrsh_

Today is the 2-year anniversary of Rachid Taha's death.It's a tall order to tweet about a figure who not only eludes most forms of classification - genre (in the French

ಪ್ರಭಾಳ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

Sheshapatangi

#ShaheedUdhamSinghThe HISTORY of a warrior who waited 21 years to take revenge for JallianwalaBagh Massacre.Before Reading Further, Let Me 1st Introduce, How Gandhi & Nehru Responded when Udham Singh took

Mark Letteney

mdlett

As some of you may know, @MatthewDCLarsen and I have an article coming out identifying a Roman military prison underneath a Sanctuary of the Standards. I've got lots to say

Tina Ngata

tinangata

What is practically needed right now is white people training themselves on the following issues so they can deliver antiracist programs to NZ private and public sector:Tiriti o Waitangi, ANDRacism

Vasundhara Sirnate

vsirnate

This thread is for Non-resident Indians in America that support the #CAA Today I want to tell you the story of a man called Bhagat Singh Thind. He was born

Sean M Joyce

SeanMJoyce1

The American History Thread V.11763 to the presentA detailed look into our past. February 10, 1763The French and Indian war (Seven Years' war) ended with the signing of the Treaty

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