Thomas Meaney

Thomas Meaney is a fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He is writing a history of American thinkers and decolonisation. Saskia Schäfer contributed to the writing of this piece.

In the LRB Archive:

• In the Centre of the Centre: The German Election · 21 September 2017

• Short Cuts · 4 May 2017

• Ten Bullets to One, Twenty to Another: Sri Lanka · 2 February 2017

  • Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World by Steven Kemper
  • Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman
  • The Seasons of Trouble: Life amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Rohini Mohan

• So it must be for ever: American Foreign Policy · 14 July 2016

  • American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson
  • A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role by John A. Thompson
  • A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s by Daniel J. Sargent

• Little Old Grandfather: Djilas and Stalin · 19 May 2016

  • Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas, translated by Michael Petrovich

• Short Cuts · 4 February 2016

• Short Cuts · 21 May 2015

• The Swaddling Thesis: Margaret Mead · 6 March 2014

  • Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler

• Half-Finished People: Germany Imagines Hellas · 11 October 2012

  • The Tyranny of Greece over Germany by E.M. Butler

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