Articles by John Newsinger

• English Atrocities
  • John Newsinger

  in NLR 32, March-April 2005, pp. 153-160
  Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography
  

  John Newsinger on David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged and Caroline Elkins, Britain’s Gulag. Complementary accounts of British colonial crimes in Kenya. The throttling of a liberation movement by gallows and gaol, re-examined in the shadow of Abu Ghraib.

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• Elgin in China
  • John Newsinger

  in NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 119-140
  Subjects: China , History and Historiography
  

  The sacking of the Emperor’s Summer Palace in Beijing by an Anglo-French expeditionary force was one of the high-points of nineteenth-century imperialism. The lucidity of its perpetrator, Elgin, offers a paradoxical contrast with the chorus of apologists for Anglo-American interventions today.

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• An Episode in the Larkin Wars
  • John Newsinger

  in NLR I/202, November-December 1993, pp. 125-127
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Biography and Intellectual History , Literature
  

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