Linda Colley

Chanakya Neeti - Eleventh Chapter , English Proverb , Manning Barish , Arabic Proverb , Chanakya Neeti - Third Chapter

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In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

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both , british , american
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The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

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british , excuse , forgetting
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Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

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globalisation , remotely , been
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The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

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uprising , india , did
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The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.

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canadian , obliged , men
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Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

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modernity , shifting , easily
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Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.

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hillary , clinton , well
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One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

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knows , something , important
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Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. Nor have such acts been unique to Islam.

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acts , violence , against
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Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

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like , proverbial , elephant
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American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

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american , prejudices , europe
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It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

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hard , convince , people
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I was in Boston, Massachusetts, when Princess Diana died.

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princess , diana
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America's entire homeland security enterprise positively invites questions even as it strives to reassure.

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entire , homeland , security
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Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

Linda Colley
thanksgiving , favourite , brilliant