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Re-Remembering War

3 pieces filed under Re-Remembering War.

2020

  1. Re-Remembering 4

    THE INDIAN “MUTINY” (1857-9). RUNNING A CAPITALIST EMPIRE. Accounts of the Indian “mutiny” often focus down on little events or issues which tripped the “mutiny” into action, but it was part of a…

  2. Re-Remembering 3

    3\. THE SECOND OPIUM WAR OF 1856-60. The East India Company imported opium from India to China, until in the 1830s there were five million addicts. The Qing Government issued a decree banning opium…

  3. 1. Re-Remembering War.

    We are coming up to Remembrance Day, but this year it must be different. Usually, it is frozen in a sacred, silent respect for the dead and an implicit, always unchallenged, understanding that they…