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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the perils of writing global history, to a global tale from 1623, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
Bonfire of the Humanities
Samuel Moyn
Nation Magazine
Proponents of globalizing history have persuasively argued that history has remained “Eurocentric,” but Hunt rightly asks whether the contemporary fashion of writing history across large spaces does more than drastically expand the canvas for historical depiction. “Is globalization a new paradigm for historical explanation that replaces those criticized by cultural theories?” she asks. It may enlarge the scale of study, focusing on long-distance trade, far-flung empire or cross-border war, but such a perspective could merely draw greater mountains of facts in view, without explaining what they mean or why they matter.
What global history emphatically does not prove is that the classic authorities for interpreting the past have become obsolete, especially since Karl Marx himself described the phenomenon now called globalization. Hunt’s starting point is different. She argues that because she and her fellow cultural historians so irreparably damaged the social theories that comman
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Gabriel Boric was born in Punta Arenas on February 11, 1986. He pursued his higher education at the Law School of the University of Chile, graduating in 2009.
In 2008, he was elected as Councilor of the University of Chile Student Federation (FECh), marking the beginning of his political career. He later served as a University Senator and was elected President of the Federation in 2011.
In 2013, Boric was elected as a deputy for the period 2014-2018, during which he actively participated in various Permanent Commissions, including those on Human Rights and Native Peoples, Extreme Zones and Chilean Antarctica and Labor and Social Security. Re-elected as a deputy in 2017 for the period 2018-2022, he continued his legislative work in commissions focusing on Constitution, Legislation, Justice, and Regulation, as well as Extreme Zones and Chilean Antarctica.
In 2021, Boric achieved a significant milestone by being elected as the President of the Republic of Chile for the period 2022-2026, making history as the youngest President in the country's history.
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2021 Annual Circlet Prize, Honors, and Amity Winners
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November 10, 2021
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