
Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili
The Dig
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The Importance of Decolonization in the Middle East
In politics, the 19 fifties is one of the really great decades. The processs of decolonization and anti colonial struggles that emerged in asian africa during that period led to nationalist leaders taking over in a lot of these places. And then, less than a century after it was constructed by under british and in french coercion, britain and france and israel invaded egypt sinai to seize control of the suez canal. What impact did that invasion have on both shipping and the entire global economy?
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