Reformers From the Ruins: Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani: Reformation in the Middle East
What if I told you that the Islamic Republic, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda all trace their ideological roots to the same man? And...
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Examining Western Models Applied to the East in Pankaj Mishra’s “From the Ruins of Empire”
I hear people talk about the importance of reading non-Western centric history so often that it’s become cliche. That said, Pankaj...
Maoism in the Post-Mao Era: Afterthoughts on “Maoism: A Global History”
While I picked up Julia Lovell’s “Maoism: A Global History" specifically to learn about the export of Chinese communism, one of the most...
Creating an International Ideology: "Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell’s “Maoism: A Global History” is an attempt to recenter the role of Maoist China in the Cold War, and to trace Mao Zedong’s...
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