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‘Western Culture’ and Where it Really Came From

After Donald Trump’s statement that immigration is “a very negative thing”, Brian Catlos takes a look at how the demagogues of the political right harken back to a supposedly pure, white European culture, and how these arguments are based on a false, romanticized view of the past.

The beginning of the end of Empire? Reassessing the reporting of the British retreat in Burma

The long retreat of the British-Indian army fighting in Burma during 1942 was given good coverage in the western press. Philip Woods’ new book is the first scholarly analysis of media coverage of this retreat, focusing on newsreel, magazine and newspaper correspondents.

China’s East Wind Blows… To Barking, London

A massive freight train from China, dubbed the ‘East Wind’, arrives in Barking, London. A courier of thousands of cheap Chinese goods, it is also marks changing times for global trade.

What is China doing in Guinea?

What is China doing in Guinea, and why have mining operations in the country stalled?