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Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

… change, whose roots are found in the history of the British Empire in India. So my book takes this long historical … 3 million deaths and made clear the terrible costs of the Empire to India. The Indian nationalist movement had come to …
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Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… zoo that something's going to happen to it. And then the revolutions in 1905, and the revolutions in 1917 because the Moscow Zoo is such an urban … at, as symbols of conquered wild nature as signifiers of Empire. Whether the humans were Newfins or Samoans or …
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

A Man for All Seasons

Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… it hardly seems significant that in the video game Age of Empires 'Ave Caesar' scenario "[t]he player (not the digital …
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.

The Taiwan Strait Conflict

… Asia. When the Allied powers dissolved Japan’s overseas empire in 1945, Taiwan was returned to Nationalist China.  …
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist

(Bicycle) Wheels of Change

Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)