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Nils Gilman

Seeing the future through the past, and vice versa

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Return of the Repressed

Reading Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman’s interesting collection Inventing the Third World (Bloomsbury, 2023) got me thinking this morning that the global history of the second half of the twentieth century presented two great experiments i...

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