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We have to learn to navigate this globalized world. Instant communication has changed our lives; those crises of the 18th and 19th centuries were not… - John Elliott
" "We have to learn to navigate this globalized world. Instant communication has changed our lives; those crises of the 18th and 19th centuries were not known around the world, but now we know what is going on everywhere at any time. But we are also seeing a world in which the banks and the large multinationals are playing a bigger role than ever in making decisions about how we live. These supranational organizations are pressuring governments, and that is distancing government from the people. People want more control over their lives, which is why we are seeing a resurgence of regionalism, of ethnicity, of nationalism - everybody wants a place in the sun.
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About John Elliott
(23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
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Sir John Huxtable Elliott
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John Huxtable Elliott
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J.H.Elliott
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