Urbanising China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945

Metropolitan History seminar23 November 2011Urbanising China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945Toby Lincoln (Centre for Urban History, Leicester)   Toby Lincoln examines Wuxi at the beginning of the twentieth century asking questions of its urban development, its...

La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968

Latin American History8 January 2013Ben Smith (Warwick)La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968  In 1929 the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) was formed and later renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).  Between 1940 and 1970 this...