Imperialism
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We must restore the voice of the scholar-historian in the ongoing battle for the soul of imperial history, now dominated by ‘writers’ who package slogans – the Raj was ‘violent’ ‘c...
1. The Arab Muslim Conquest of Sindh Story of Islamic Imperialism in India – 1 The most brutal imperialism that India ever suffered from is Islamic imperialism. In this series we...
A short answer to the question of why Tsarist Russia never tried to take part in the scramble for Africa is: it did. A follow-up 🧵 on Russia's uncomfortable colonial past. 1/ https...
1- Historically Europe is the home of marxism, Marxist-Leninist thought, fascism, the National Socialists - colonialism - two world wars - slave trade - two of the bloodiest civil...
In 1901, after China was defeated by the imperialist Eight-Nation Alliance, it was forced to pay 1.18 billion troy ounces of silver to the colonisers over 39 years. Using a gold-s...
Straight white men function as a scapegoat for progressive ideology, they are blamed for the totality of society's woes (structural racism, sexism, imperialism, etc.) The problem w...
Mass public shootings are a byproduct of western imperialist violence, which itself is a projection of white supremacist aspirations for global dominance. During the 1980s you had...
A 🧵abt frmer Imperial German Navy gunboat SMS Vaterland that fought on Yangtze River, turned Chinese Navy ship Li Sui 利绥 that fought in the Allied Intervention of Russian Civil W...
Samir Amin critiqued cultural views of Orientalism and proposed alternative, structural analyses of imperialism, Eurocentrism, uneven development and ideology. What can contempora...
👉 Thread on Gaudeshwar Mahipal - the Pala dynasty Monarch who resisted invasion of Gaznavids & saved Varanasi (1/16) https://t.co/RqHjT7Tun1
Address from Imperialism on Trial event in July, warning about the new #Technocracy, #GreatReset, #Lockdown, #VaccinePassports, #GreenNewDeal, dangers of #CBDC and Silicon Valley's...
OK a massive thread with some stuff about Afghanistan and imperialism that you may not have heard despite all that you have heard. It's going to be long, I'll just say that in adva...
To start, a little background on Iran & pre-independence #Malaysia. Being a part of the #BritishEmpire, the individual Malayan states did not have independent ties with Iran. Since...
