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Napoleon in the driver’s seat, Russian overextension and the assassination of Paul, Amiens being an average 18th century treaty with Bonaparte as the prime reason for its short duration.

Marx reports that the UK forcing open the China market in the 1840s hadn’t led to much in the 1850s except opium. Describing the domestic market where most clothes were made in the home in China and comparing it to India makes me want to learn more about the economics of imperialism in India.

Eveland moves near the White House and goes on a mission for the CIA with a lot of silliness while already looking for an oil job.

Overview of the Naga people’s claims for sovereignty. I mainly know of the area through WWII and the battles of Kohima and Imphal as are discussed here including some Naga connections with the Japanese and the Bose.

Listened to the two part episode of American Prestige podcast and had to check it out. Got it free because of a program from the author’s academic post, The Ohio State University, so thanks to them. Weaving a story of the limits of decolonization in the post-war era and some international advocacy groups from Nagaland to Namibia is right up my alley. Especially the interactions with industrial concerns.

Eveland certainly name drops. The people are always fascinating. His ideas on development sound better than the policies enacted.

Great article on the hypocrisy on the British government, opium, and making a buck in China

It’s hard to believe but probably totally true that in the ramp up to war in the late thirties a guy like Evelyn’s could advance in new fields rapidly.

Figured this would be the best intro for me to Marx since I know a fair amount about the period including some about his long distance editor, Whig impresario Thurlow Weed. Decided to skip the intro since the blurbs made the editors of this edition seem like BBC hacks. I’ll probably double back later. Article about the Taiping Rebellion was a nice overview of contemporary Sino-European relations for 1857

Schroeder stressed that the old international order was still in play and even that there weren’t solid ideas for something new during the First Coalition.

The proto-concert attempt at restraint from Leopold II.

Fritz Fischer as a microcosm of West German need for post-war absolution with the lies and omissions that it entailed.

Renouvin seems very much a creature of a system while Albertini comes across as a frustrated demagogue who produced fascinating works but avoided the hard years of some of his unsavory interventions.

I’ve always gotten the impression that Showa could have spoken out more against the Imperial Way Faction if he had wanted to.

The continuities of hydrocarbon extraction and the “drug war” of US presidential administrations toward Mexico is timely and frighteningly familiar. Why has Harris’s volte face on immigration not caused more of an uproar?? Surely, one aspect is previous precedent.

The people featured in the bio chapter are just scum!

The openness of white supremacy at the time should be must better remember. Dramatic prose.

The factionalism is beginning to coalesce.

The world will never be free as long as “intelligence agencies” are around.