Israel and the Puritans: A dangerous historical romance
When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?
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When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?
The oeuvre of what comrade Hage Geingob has done and said in various permutations – the Namibian house, Harambee, holding hands, pulling together in the same direction – one does not make peace with one’s friends, one makes peace with one’s enemies, no one should feel left out – are a treasure trove for Namibians, thoughtful commentators, historians and students of philosophy and political science.
My introduction to volume 56 -- volume 56! -- of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has now gone up online.
In a democratic age, a democratic society should produce a democratic history, that is not only empirically honest and methodologically sound but one which allows us to learn genuinely from the past and be challenged by it
Neera Chandhoke THIS relatively slim volume paints the history and the geography of the nation-state, in many parts of the world, in broad brush strokes. Muralidharan draws upon the expertise of scho