Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
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Slavery and Industrialization
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An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
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The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
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Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
On March 25, 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the world’s largest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of COVID 19. The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across India, with panic-stricken people desperately trying to leave for their homes in villages, walking over hundreds if not thousands of kilometres. Who were these men, women and children streaming out of India’s cities? Why did they feel compelled to leave the economic engines of among the world’s fastest growing economies and return to their rural homes?
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Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
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Jacob Keesing Ostfeld
Edward Knudsen
Edward Knudsen is a doctoral researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford and an Affiliate Policy Fellow in European political economy at the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin. His research focuses on the political economy and economic history of the US and Europe in the 20th century, specifically how the historical memory of economic events is constructed and deployed. Previously, he worked in the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House think tank in London on projects which explored the future of transatlantic economic and security relations.