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Lara’s Substack

Lara Ballard

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Reading up on the Free City of Danzig

A map showing the distributions of the various languages spoken and associated ethnic groups in northern West Prussia, focused on the area around Danzig, in the year 1910, as well as major rivers, forests, moorlands, and towns. The interwar...

8 days ago
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Poles, Zionists and a Clusterf*ck at Versailles: Part Two

"Map of Poland on the Peace Table Closing Germany's Gateway to Russia" by Charles H. Owens (1919).

Last week,

I introduced most of the major players in the creation of both the independent nation-state of Poland and the British mandate ov...

15 days ago
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Poles, Zionists, and a Clusterf*ck at Versailles

Caricature of Lucien Wolf that ran in Vanity Fair on Dec. 20, 1911. Caption read “Diplomaticus”.

A few weeks ago I tried to carry out a level-set with regard to Polish history and its relationship with Jews.

Where I left off, multiple fac...

22 days ago
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L’Shana Tovah!

This weekend is Rosh Hashanah, which has given me an opportunity to engage offline with some thoughtful people over the course of the holiday. I’m still working through my materials on Poland and Palestine but primarily prepping for my disc...

a month ago
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Can you have a nation-state without nationalism?

Hannah Arendt in 1933. Public domain.

I’m doing yet more readings this week on Zionism and the history of Palestine, in large part to prepare for a discussion group I’m leading in a few weeks; some of this work is pulling me away from my i...

a month ago
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    Former intelligence oversight officer, now examining the historical intersection of colonialism and national security. A little obsessed with the Westphalian nation-state construct and its limitations.

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