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Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 Feb 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again...

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Detail of a map of the Holy Roman Empire, 1492 - 1618.

Kaiser, Reich and the making of modern Germany

01 Dec 2011

Europe is in crisis and its future is said to depend on Germany. ̽»¨Ö±²¥most comprehensive study of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken...

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Athens acropolis

̽»¨Ö±²¥Athenians: Another warning from history?

02 Oct 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson...

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