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12 Aug 2022The period 1910-40 was tumultuous in Mexican history.
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25 Jun 2015Scholars of modern Jewish life have largely focused on Jews’ position in the nation-states in which they live.
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23 Jan 2014It is a rare thing for a reviewer to read a book which on its own terms, in its content and argument, leaves nothing open to serious criticism. Professor Diarmaid Ferriter’s Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s is one such book.
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1 Dec 2011Penelope Fitzgerald’s historical novel The Beginning of Spring, set in Moscow in 1913 but written at the height of perestroika, conveys an ambivalence familiar to those of us who spent time there during the Gorbachev years.