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How Did the Gendered Experiences of Colonialism Inform Anti-Colonial Resistance?
By Siru Chen [Edited by Jaina Debnam and Tayyiba Nasir] The task of recovering subaltern history and restoring agency to marginalised...
Tayyiba Nasir
Nov 8, 202012 min read
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How was British rule in India maintained and justified in the nineteenth century?
By Sadiya Akter [Edited by Bismah Rahman and Seren Caglar] The beginning of British rule in India was a complex one. The role of the...
Seren Caglar
Nov 8, 202014 min read
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Was the Ottoman Empire an 'Early Modern' state or a 'medieval' one?
By Fatmanour Chouseinoglou [Edited by Todd Ballantine-Morris & Claudia Brooker] When questioning the modernity of a six hundred-year-old...
Claudia Brooker
Nov 8, 202014 min read
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To what extent could the Inca Empire be described as an 'Empire of excess'?
By Hannah Cragg (Edited by Sonia Hussain) When considering the sullen, and often barren Andes and its surrounding scenery, an observer...
Sonia Hussain
Nov 8, 20208 min read
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How have different narratives of the Amritsar Massacre shaped our understanding of this event?
By Nimisha Dave [Edited by Ishaan Tugnait & Fatmanour Chouseinoglou] ‘An extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in...
Fatmanour Chouseinoglou
Nov 8, 202016 min read
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Moyn vs. Burke: relationship between anti-colonialism & human rights treaties in the postwar era
Full title: Use the debate between Samuel Moyn and Roland Burke a jumping off point for your research on the relationship between...
Carla Norman
Nov 8, 202010 min read
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What Was the Rationale(s) Behind the Collection of Human Remains Within European Empires?
By Nathaniel Betts [Edited by Sonika Birdi and Tayyiba Nasir] When it comes to discussing the debates surrounding the history of the...
Tayyiba Nasir
Nov 8, 202010 min read
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What Was the Role of Rumours and Religion During the Uprising of 1857?
By Niyaz Ahmed [Edited by Katherine Simpson and Tayyiba Nasir] On March 1857, in the British Cantonment of Meerut, the commanding British...
Tayyiba Nasir
Nov 8, 20209 min read
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Why did Britain issue the Balfour Declaration?
By Lea Chehabeddine [Edited by Mark Potter & Tertia Bloor] The Balfour Declaration was a statement issued by Arthur Balfour, foreign...
Tertia Bloor
Nov 8, 20208 min read
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Compare and Contrast the Crisis of the Ottoman and Spanish Empires up to the 1820s
By Robin Alexander Plant [Edited by Fatmanour Chouseinoglou & Zhara Adal] This essay will compare and contrast how the Spanish and...
Zhara Adal
Nov 7, 202015 min read
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How did the figure of the Virgin Mary offer a bridge between indigenous cultures and Christianity?
By Isabelle Grime [Edited by Henry James Long and Sonia Hussain] In what ways did the figure of the Virgin Mary offer a bridge between...
ra19269
Nov 7, 202012 min read
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Did white violence serve to facilitate or undermine British rule in India?
By Aiysha Rao [Edited by Krutika Sharma & Carla Norman] White violence served to facilitate and justify British rule within India by...
Carla Norman
Nov 7, 20209 min read
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'The British and Dutch established the most successful empires', Why?
By Daniel McDowall [Edited by Alice Routledge and Eleanor Day] The Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and British empires were four of the...
Eleanor Day
Nov 7, 20209 min read
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Anti-Colonialism and the transnational system of human rights treaties in the post war-era
By Alice Routledge [Edited by Saundarya Mitter and Claudia Brooker] Post-World War Two, an emergence of a new wave of human rights is...
ccbrooker2
Nov 7, 202010 min read
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Do states intervene to protect the rights of others, or is it just a cloak for imperial practice?
By Veena Saunder [Edited by Mark Potter & Fatmanour Chouseinoglou] Why does Gary Bass think that it is not, and do you find his...
Fatmanour Chouseinoglou
Nov 7, 20205 min read
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How has anti-colonial resistance been shaped by political and ideological considerations?
By Alysha Lawson-Frost [Edited by Teddy Wryley-Birch and Sonia Hussain] How have academic and popular histories of anti-colonial...
ra19269
Nov 7, 202013 min read
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Debt or Disease: What Has Posed the Greatest Threat to Post-Colonial African States?
By Eleanor Day [Edited by Ella Falk and Tayyiba Nasir] The Sub-Saharan African nation can be characterised by two things from the...
Tayyiba Nasir
Nov 7, 202013 min read
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Who and what are we studying when we study subaltern histories of resistance?
By Seren Caglar [Edited by Aisha Parmenter and Sonia Hussain] Subaltern histories of resistance refer to the post-colonial study of...
ra19269
Nov 7, 202010 min read
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How did moral panics inform British colonial policies in India during the nineteenth century?
By Daniil Alexseev [Edited by Megan Saunders and Tertia Bloor] How did various kinds of moral panics inform British colonial policies in...
Tertia Bloor
Nov 7, 202010 min read
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Was the violence of Partition 1947 caused by existing conflict or by contingencies of decolonisation
Full title: Was the violence of Partition 1947 caused by pre-existing communal conflict or by contingencies of decolonisation, i.e. long-...
Carla Norman
Nov 7, 202015 min read
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