Benjamin Eskola
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24 August, 2022
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Review: Gregory Claeys,
Marx and Marxism
(2018)
21 October, 2020
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Review: John Julius Norwich,
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
(2018)
20 January, 2020
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Review: Christopher Clark,
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
(2007)
14 October, 2019
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Review: David McKittrick and David McVea,
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict
(2012)
24 September, 2019
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Review: E. P. Thompson,
Poverty of Theory
(1978)
4 May, 2019
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Review: Richard J. Evans,
In Defence of History
(2001)
25 January, 2019
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Review: Lindsey German and John Rees,
A People’s History of London
(2012)
9 December, 2018
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Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 5
28 November, 2018
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Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 4
12 November, 2018
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Review: Orlando Figes,
Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991
(2014)
16 October, 2017
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Review: Michael Burleigh,
Small Wars, Faraway Places
(2013)
13 May, 2017
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Review: Eric Williams,
Capitalism & Slavery
(1994)
27 April, 2017
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Free Trade and Imperialism: the cotton industry and British foreign policy, 1858–98
25 April, 2017
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Review: Sven Beckert,
Empire of Cotton
(2015)
21 March, 2017
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Why, and through what means did revelations of atrocities in the Congo produce a ‘crisis of empire’ in the early twentieth century?
21 March, 2017
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Do you agree that the Soviet cultural policies of the 1930s were a retreat from socialism?
13 February, 2017
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Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 3
7 February, 2017
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Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 2
31 January, 2017
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Review: Robert Service,
A History of Modern Russia
(2003)
26 January, 2017
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Review: Ellen Meiksins Wood,
The Origin of Capitalism
(2002)
23 January, 2017
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Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 1
16 January, 2017
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Review: Richard J. Evans,
Altered Pasts
(2014)
8 December, 2016
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“The 1917 Revolution was the inevitable outcome of the First World War”. Discuss.
15 March, 2016
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To what extent and in what ways is Imperialism gendered?
15 March, 2016
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What were the consequences of the Sino-Soviet split for the Cold War?
9 March, 2016
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Review: Robert Service,
Lenin: A Biography
(2010)
8 December, 2015
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To what extent can the United States in the twentieth century be described as an empire?
16 March, 2015
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Why was the Swedish empire so short-lived?
11 December, 2014
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Has the role of religion in the French civil wars of the sixteenth century been exaggerated?
9 December, 2014
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How ‘new’ was the ‘new imperialism’ of the period c. 1870–1914?
2 April, 2014
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Did the Franco dictatorship emerge more from long-term internal Spanish conflicts, or as part of a ‘European Civil War’?
4 July, 2013
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To what extent can the outbreak of civil war in 1642 be blamed on Charles I?