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Vivien Chang
@vivienlchang.bsky.social
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Visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Historian of decolonization, development, postcolonial Africa, US & the world.
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Vivien Chang @vivienlchang.bsky.social · Aug 31
Thanks so much, John!
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Aug 29
What a lovely, sharp and deeply engaging review by @vivienlchang.bsky.social this is! Thank you. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...
A History That Needs to Be Retold | Los Angeles Review of Books
Vivien Chang reviews Howard W. French’s “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.”
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David Milne @davidjmilne.bsky.social · Jun 1
An excerpt in @foreignpolicy.com from Andrew Preston's superb new book, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.

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How FDR Invented National Security
A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.
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Vivien Chang @vivienlchang.bsky.social · Jun 26
Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at #SHAFR2025 this week! Join us on Saturday morning for our roundtable on The Global Cold War ✨
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · May 28
A giant has fallen.
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · May 28
‘After missing out on the prize in 2010 to Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Ngũgĩ said he was less disappointed than the photographers who had gathered outside his home: “I was the one who was consoling them!”’
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Jan 29
The @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable on Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is out! 💫 Grateful to @lydiawalker.bsky.social, @vivienlchang.bsky.social, & Ryan Irwin for their thoughtful reviews; Eva-Maria Muschik for her kind introduction; & @emleake.bsky.social for making it happen. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...
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Mirek Tobiáš Hošman @mthosman.bsky.social · Dec 3
Excited to see this roundtable about Eric Helleiner's Contested World Economy (Cambridge, 2023) out at Toynbee Prize Foundation. Participants include @vivienlchang.bsky.social, @blaisetl.bsky.social, Lucia Quaglia, and the author himself.

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The Neglected History of International Political Economy: A Roundtable on Eric Helleiner’s “Contested World Economy.” | Toynbee Prize Foundation
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