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Book Review: Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner
The monthly book review returns, with a review of Battles for Freedom - the essays of Eric Foner for the Nation magazine 1977-2015
Explaining History…
8 years, 10 months ago
1979 and the birth of neoliberalism
In the late 1970s, after a decade of economic stagnation, western economies, accompanied by China, began the first steps towards the abandonment of t…
8 years, 10 months ago
IG Farben and the Holocaust
In 1947 the last of the Nuremberg trials began. The accused were German industrialists from the chemicals cartel IG Farben. Prosecutors charged them …
8 years, 11 months ago
War and British National Identity in the 20th Century
The development of British national identity in the 20th Century is intimately connected with conflict. War has provided a unifying force that has he…
8 years, 11 months ago
Stalin and the Soviet Bomb 1945-49
Stalin and his chief henchman Lavrenti Beria poured resources from a devastated USSR into the creation of an atomic bomb from 1945 onwards. The devel…
8 years, 11 months ago
Bretton Woods 1944-1971
In 1944 at Bretton Woods in the USA a new model of the world economy that would provide postwar stability and prosperity was devised. However, the co…
9 years ago
Mao, Khrushchev and the Great Leap Forward
Between 1958-1962 Mao's second five year plan, known as the Great Leap Forward, resulted in economic chaos and a famine that killed over 40 million p…
9 years ago
2017 Exams Special: Expert study advice with Lucy Parsons
In a slight change from our regular episodes, I've interviewed study specialist and coach Lucy Parsons to offer her knowledge on how to prepare for h…
9 years ago
The World Recession in the 1970s
After three decades of unprecedented global economic growth from the Second World War onwards, the economy of the first world experienced prolonged e…
9 years ago
French Fascism 1919-1939
Throughout the interwar period French politics polarised between right and left, but unlike Germany, the political centre ground managed to hold. On …
9 years, 1 month ago