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He fought the French to become the first president of an independent Algeria, only to be overthrown Lawrence Joffe guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 April 2012…
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Has China’s rising economic power unsettled the proud West? Tonio Andrade further rattles the cage. This historian at Emory University argues that imperial China…