Benjamin Eskola

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

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