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Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922

The Long End of the Ottoman Empire

… would replace the punitive peace treaty dictated upon the  Ottoman Empire three years earlier. Of all the treaties signed … period in the  Middle East . Between 1911 and 1922, the Ottoman Empire suffered almost constantly from wars. The … Ottoman Empire … The Long End of the Ottoman Empire …
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… of a German admiral improbably marked the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War. Within a week, the Ottomans were at war with three great powers (and the vast … Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East , by Eugene Rogan …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… Latin America [in the 1970s and 1980s] rather than … other revolutions in the post-Soviet world.” Unlike the so-called … become a vast battleground between Imperial Russia and the  Ottoman  Empire, and the historical Armenian homeland was divided … Ottoman Empire …
Alert soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate, during the Spartacist Uprising

Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution

Review of November 1918: The German Revolution, by Robert Gerwarth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… the November Revolution into the context of other socialist revolutions is one of the strongest elements of the book. By …

The Fate of the Kurds

… of three married women from Diyarbakir Province in the Ottoman Empire: Kurdish (left), Muslim (center), and Christian (right). The Kurds within the Ottoman Empire Much of Kurdistan was incorporated into the … Ottoman Empire …
Pedro Albizu Campos, noted anti-imperialist, addressing a crowd in 1936

Reframing the American Empire

Review of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
… to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Empire for which it stands.” According to Daniel Immerwahr, … children to make each morning. His book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States , presents a “familiar history differently” by placing the American empire back at the center of American history. This …
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918

Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia

… First World War placed on the deeply conservative Romanov Empire, whose tsar jealously guarded his autocratic … task: to govern a massive, incredibly diverse empire that had no firm social basis for liberal government, … was less direct, but unmistakable. Angst about the “ color revolutions ” along Russia’s borders and “ Arab Spring ” in …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

… Civil War and establish control over the far-flung Russian empire. Unlike in other countries, where governments stepped …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… Selimiye, the sixteenth-century masterpiece of the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan? Maybe a mammoth "park of … stories of triumph and disaster, poetry, and references to Ottoman and Turkish historical grandeur. According to … that he traced back to Osman, the eponym for the Ottoman Empire whose life and reign spanned the thirteenth and …
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… Episodes of Ambivalent Empire … Episodes of Ambivalent Empire …
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)

Süleyman the Magnificent

Süleyman, who would be known to the west as “the Magnificent,” began his reign as sultan of the Ottoman Empire in September 1520.
The Course of Empire: Destruction, Painted by Thomas Cole, depicts a highly dramatic, catastrophic image of Rome's end.

Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire

Review of The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to The Destruction of Roman Italy, by Michael Kulikowski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… on the street what they know about the end of the Roman Empire, they might give you key words, like “barbarians,” … In popular culture and imagination, the fall of the Roman Empire takes on the shape of a cataclysmic event, the … eighteenth century work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Scholarship on this period, however, has changed a …
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.

The View from the Countryside

Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
Soldiers aiming guns at two men in May 1848 in Dresden

The 1848 German Revolutions

On March 9, 1848, the twenty-three members of the Hanau People’s Commission—leading citizens of the small German city on the Main River, upstream from Frankfurt—declared their participation in the quickly-spreading upheaval of the March 1848 Revolutions.
… in the quickly-spreading upheaval of the March Revolutions of 1848.  Their target was Friedrich Wilhelm, … in the quickly-spreading upheaval of the March 1848 Revolutions. … The 1848 German Revolutions …
anti-communists and nationalists place a Hungarian national flag atop a demolished statue of Josef Stalin

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The date, October 23, 1956, marked the beginning of the ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to Western Europe and the United States.