Showing posts with label European history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European history. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Documentary: "Germany and the Cold War" (two parts).

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    It's another exemplary two-part Deutsche Welle documentary, focusing on the Cold War as experienced in the two German states that a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

BOOKS OF MY LIFE: "If you have ever wondered why marrying your uncle is inadvisable, the Habsburgs can enlighten you."

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I'll be purchasing this one. Indeed, it sometimes seems as if my entire motivation for traveling in Europe has been to track down t...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 12): A free state of Trieste?

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Photo credit: "The Free Territory of Trieste." We look at all these lines on a map and forget how ephemeral they can be. The ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Intellectual history: A Twitter passage by George Monbiot, two good books by Tony Judt, and you can hear a pin drop in New Gahania.

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George Monbiot "is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism." The following thoughts by Monbiot as...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

"Ultimately, right-wing populism is a tool that is used by cynical elites for their own political advantage. However, right-wing rage is not something that can be controlled."

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History: An inconvenient record suggesting it regularly repeats itself. The on-line radicalization of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Geor...