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'Europe' had been on the defensive for a millennium. Now, for half a millennium, it conquered the world. Both observations make it impossible to sever European history from world history.

— Eric Hobsbawm On History (1997)

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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict (1999)

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

The Age of Extremes (1992)

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.

In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.

The Age of Extremes (1992)

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