Shawn Liu Central Asia has long been imagined less as a place and more as a passage. In travelogues, school maps, and even much scholarship, it appears as a corridor—the Silk Road that carried goods and ideas between “centers” like China, Persia, or Europe. Historian Adeeb Khalid warns against this flattening: to see Central Asia only as a “road between somewhere and somewhere else” erases … Continue reading A Local History of Hong Kong
Vishnu Raghavan Note: This article contains descriptions of violence, torture, genocide, and death. After World War II, Italians associated with Mussolini and the dictatorship did not undergo criminal trials as far-reaching, prominent, or punishing as those faced by the Nazis at Nuremberg. Additionally, Italian anti-Jewish legislation emerged much later than similar laws in Nazi Germany, with the passage of the Italian Racial Laws in 1938. As a result, … Continue reading Review of Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
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