postcolonialy planet

Trump's protectionism heralds a return to USA's imperial roots. Some historical context. academic.oup.com/dh/article-abs… #twitterstorians @shgape

.@DrDuncanBell on how Brexiteers are reviving dreams of empire in looking for Anglosphere alternatives to Europe goo.gl/UoIxuc

"Germany has not had the same luxury of self-deception and self-glorification" about its past—in general—as Britain goo.gl/FWPYwi

.@ishaantharoor on an unerexamined part of the Western far-right's recent political surge: its nostalgia for empire goo.gl/jCPBgX

India's academic culture of rote exams: a product of colonial policy focused on finding good staff, not education goo.gl/rKsMvJ

"Courts+not history faculties are the primary place historical debate takes place about colonies in the Netherlands" goo.gl/cySnfz

Millions of People in U.S. Colonies Won't Be Able to Cast a Vote for President This Year. alternet.org/election-2016/…

"the lesson of the history of banana republics is that such is...the way Americans conduct politics -but over there" thebaffler.com/blog/banana-re…

the scramble for arctica twitter.com/nytimesworld/s…

"The empire comes home," some say about US police militarization...but what does that mean when "home" was always an empire? twitter.com/refocusedmedia…

if you need any more proof international organizations often took over where colonial empires left off, check out this new remake of "zulu"

amazing in context of current refugee crisis: decolonizing portugal put up 30k+ evacuated settlers in nice hotels goo.gl/SKxjVB

"HINDOSTAN is ye lande of opportunitie for England as she efcapes ye clutches of Catholick EUROPE"—premium coffeehouse debate, 1616, prob'ly

scratch almost any post-brexit plan, find a fantasy about reviving the empire in some way twitter.com/telegraph/stat…

"the UK plan is for human rights not to apply to soldiers sent off to liberate people or secure their human rights" 😂goo.gl/hQ3sZR

that would be the star in turkey. make ottomania great again? twitter.com/nords41/status…

imagine, historians who worked whole lives in postcolonial archives now know much of their work could be based on lies—but don't know which!

most people have heard about the burning by now but had no idea documents were faked in archives handed over to former colonies twitter.com/ruthbenghiat/s…