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Who doesn't love a beautiful siege?

Oct 23, 2021
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Records of kings and battles are among the very first art and writing of the human race. Mayan, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian kings all wanted their combat glories to be remembered as their civilizations emerged. Power has thus always shaped the historical discourse about its own exercise of violence. History, Keith Jenkins tells us, is really the story of…

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