1848+: Last and First Men

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When the Climate Change Center
Cannot Hold Patrick Bond

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The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
John McWhorter
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000 languages can induce in real life, the story makes a certain sense.

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Metropolitan Glory
From Paris to Timbuktu, the urban places that have played illustrious roles in the world’s story
By TUNKU VARADARAJAN

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Heil Heidegger!
By Carlin Romano
http://chronicle.com/article/Heil-Heidegger-/48806/
How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a prolific, provincial Nazi hack? Overrated in his prime, bizarrely venerated by acolytes even now, the pretentious old Black Forest babbler [...]

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A world redrawn
When America showed up on a map, it was the universe that got transformed

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Holocaust: The ignored reality
If we concentrate on Auschwitz and the Gulag – generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter – we fail to notice that over a period of twelve years, between 1933 and 1944, some 12 million victims of Nazi and Soviet mass killing policies perished [...]

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Charles Esdaile
The Bear Against The Cockrel
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
Dominic Lieven (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 617pp £30)
Readers familiar with Tolstoy’s War and Peace will possibly remember a dramatic incident that occurs in the wake of the French invasion of Russia. Alone at her estate of Bleak Hills following the death [...]

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Time to move beyond the original idea for this blog: the date 1848 is used in World History And The Eonic Effect is a sense far broader than the political, and this blog is needed for a while as a general history and modernity site.
As will become clear in the event.
http://www.redfortyeight.com/1848-a-blog/
We can reset the tone [...]

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I am going to change the theme of this blog, which was, as state, a one post blog about the forty-eight revolutions.
The domain works just as well as a themed blog on history and the eonic effect, and the history in its wake.

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