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Jeremy Adelman

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University

Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea professor of history and director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His latest books are Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman (2013) and the co-authored Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (4th ed, 2014).

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A diverse, smiling crowd holding US flags indoors. Prominent women are wearing traditional clothing, one holds a child.

essayNations and empires

The patriot paradox

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive

Jeremy Adelman

Collage of newspaper front pages with headlines about economic crisis, stock market plunge, and government interventions.

ideaPolitics and government

Why we need to be wary of narratives of economic catastrophe

Jeremy Adelman

Painting of a fire consuming a city at night with people fleeing down stone stairs under an archway, ancient buildings in the background.

ideaPolitics and government

Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous

Jeremy Adelman

Armed fighters, one in a jeep with a flag, others on foot with weapons, dark smoke clouds in the background, daytime.

essayWar and peace

Don’t look away

Photography came of age amid the wars and atrocities, as well as the humanitarian aspirations, of the modern world

Jeremy Adelman

Aark storm clouds over a coastal city with numerous ships anchored in the water and light breaking through in the background.

essayGlobal history

What is global history now?

Historians cheered globalism with work about cosmopolitans and border-crossing, but the power of place never went away

Jeremy Adelman