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Sep 2024
49m 40s

The Crusades and the origins of the West...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
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Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History.  He returns to the show to talk in-depth about the meaning of the Crusades to our understanding of contemporary imperialism.

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