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Archive for July 17th, 2008
Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard
Today: Merchant marine milk cows keep the corrupting Chinese commerce coming!
As well, as a colonies on the North American mainland and in the Caribbean, Sweden established a foothold in China at Canton in the eighteenth century. The Swedish East India Company, founded in 1732 to capture the eastern end of trade, was highly successful for [...]
A Legacy of Russophobia
GuideMoscow.com caught an earlier post of ours about David Foglesong’s book, and noted the cartoon.
Foglesong writes of a legacy of American efforts to re-make Russia in its image, and his book includes a number of hilarious (if scary) political cartoons from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Yes, friends, themes include Satan, the brilliant [...]
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