Episode 14: Decolonization and Asia
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English - August 28, 2020 16:02 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary “One night in Bangkok makes a hard man tremble.” Weird concept musicals by Abba members aside, Asia is a place that many in the West have a fairly Orientalist relationship with, seeing it as both exotic and primitive. In today’s episode, we explore that relationship; starting with the French “restoration” of Angkor Wat, we …