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The nation turned away from depression and world war to what became America's vast peacetime imperial consumerism--the automobile-and-suburb culture. The baby boom was in utero, or in diapers. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were approaching the terrible twos. In LIFE, an ad for Mutual Life...
Yamada maintains some traditions, however. About half of his wares are still produced from wood and natural urushi lacquer by craftsmen in the Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures beside the Sea of Japan, where the moist air creates ideal conditions for varnishing. Yamada Heiando also remains a purveyor of lacquer ware...
Such theories justified brutal forms of exploitation of the poor during colonial rule, and they persist even today among those who lack an understanding of what happened and is still happening in the Third World. In fact, the failure of the Third World to grow as rapidly as the First...
Over the past decade, Assistant Professor of History Caroline M. Elkins has carefully crafted her maiden work, a 500-page indictment of British authorities’ repression of the Mau Mau uprising in post-World War II Kenya. Imperial Reckoning is a composite of oral interviews and painstaking documentary research...
Sadly, the popular aspect of Elkins’ history also takes Imperial Reckoning off-track. In an attempt to help her non-academic audience understand the Mau Mau, she uses tropes like “Nazism” for comparison’s sake and drops the word ?...