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Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past. |
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Fraser Newham finds a connection running from the East India Company’s first mission to Tibet to the completion of the Golmud to Lhasa railway by the Chinese today. Published in History Today, Volume: 57 Issue: 1, 2007
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Robert Bud says we should remember the Asian flu epidemic of 1957 as a turning point in the history of antibiotics. |
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Mihir Bose samples a work on an infamous massacre in the Raj in 1919.
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October 25th, 1605
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 Tamerlane, or Timur, one of history's most brutal butchers, died on February 18th, 1405. |
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Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide. |
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Denis Judd takes stock of current arguments as to the effect of British rule in India and other countries of the Empire.
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Rikki Kersten extols the example of an unlikely hero, the historian Ienaga Saburo, who singlehandedly challenged Japan’s official view of responsibility for its behaviour in the Second World War.
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 The Battle of Port Arthur began on February 8th, 1904. |
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Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past. |
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Anthony Reid traces some surprising precedents for the many recent women rulers in South and Southeast Asia. |
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Jessica Harrison-Hall introduces the upcoming exhibition of Vietnamese art at the British Museum.
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 Ian Mabbett considers how Buddhism, while preaching the rejection of society, simultaneously became a popular religion. Published in History Today, Volume: 52 Issue: 1
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 The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on January 30th, 1902. |
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Margaret Mehl explains the surprising adoption of two Japanese scholars by their hometowns as major tourist attractions. Published in History Today, Volume: 51 Issue: 8
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