OF POLITICS AND HISTORY…A DEFEATED people are rarely given opportunity to write their own history. The privilege to record, shape or distort historical events is typically reserved for the victor. Expectedly, those who write history reserve the most enviable memories and titles for themselves and their kin. Conqueror, master, merchant, noble, explorer, saint, are few of the more polite titles assigned to those titans of global history – as we are told.A summary of world history tells of landmark events written for future generations to understand the hierarchy of nations. Pax Britannica, for example, refers to a time when Britain dominated the global political economy somewhere between the early 1800s to early 1900s. Pax Americana refers to the period of American dominance beginning around the 1940s and even after. Such global dominance is propelled by supreme military power ready to defend and protect the image and interests of the superpower anywhere on the globe – and […]
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