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… Genocide . In the midst of  World War I  and as the Ottoman Empire suffered through what we now know were its last … of Utah and its press. American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau, decried Turkey's actions …

… War, but just twelve days prior, the Allied Powers and the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros. The Ottoman Empire was to be partitioned among the Allies, with …

… that make up the vast, diverse world of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, but few have produced works as … Sunderland’s work is a brilliant portrait of the Russian Empire and its collapse in the face of revolution and civil … primer for anyone seeking to understand the Russian Empire and the legacies of imperial rule across Eurasia. Why …

… leader and the significant phases of the Cold War. A Failed Empire begins with the origins of the Cold War under the … sides of the same coin. 3 Stalin hoped he could build an empire without antagonizing the United States, but this … guided Soviet leaders. The Soviet Union had acquired a vast empire by 1953 and the Kremlin was not about to give it up. …

… of this period. In African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa , however, Michael A. Gomez places West African empires—particularly those of Ghana, Mali, and the … West Africa and the Sahel region. Gomez considers the proto-empires of the region, which include the growth of the city …

… in the quickly-spreading upheaval of the March Revolutions of 1848.  Their target was Friedrich Wilhelm, … Confederation, like the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire. And yet, in March 1848, the inhabitants of Hanau, as … Revolution … 19th Century … Europe … March 1848: The German Revolutions …

… in Najaf and Karbala to continue the campaign in post-Ottoman Iraq . Nationalist organizations in Baghdad and …

… between the American colonies and the British Empire it is hard to see how combat could have been avoided …

… imperial history at Columbia University. The Scandal of Empire attempts to show how the scandal surrounding … to illustrate how the trial shaped ideas surrounding empire broadly and about India specifically. At the center … created a modern British identity based on the existence of empire. Overall, this is a very well written text. Dirks has …

… for all the world like the White Tower’s lost cousins. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II commissioned them in the … century in order to secure Istanbul and end the Byzantine Empire. The Rumelian Castle Complex in Istanbul, … by Sultan Mehmed II in the mid-fifteenth century. The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it …

… Michael Quentin Morton’s Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East , … of oil is as much about social issues as economic ones. Empires and Anarchies argues that, “oil creates empires and anarchies in the same way that wealth, power and …

… especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to … territorial claims. Antiquarians argued that the Russian Empire was the successor of Kievan Rus, and thus that its … and Belorussia should be integrated into the Russian Empire. In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist …

… to the Knights of St. John on Malta and their war with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. This offers a number of … the ironic modern parallels, we even have the Islamic Ottoman Imperial government complaining to various Christian …

… article, Schwab outlines the previous three industrial revolutions: mechanized production by steam power in the … whose homespun industry perished under the bootheel of empire. In Das Kapital , Marx quoted India’s Governor …

… Independence Albania, which had been a part of the  Ottoman Empire ’s European territories since the 15th century, … to plague Albanian politics was the lingering presence of Ottoman social and political structures. Wealthy Muslim …

… adhere to the rising tide of constitutional modernity. “The Empire had to embrace the very changes that threatened the … because of real and imagined subterfuge from within the Empire, as well as a failure of centralization. The failure … successor state. This book sheds light on the multiple revolutions that took place in 1917. The February Revolution …

… But President Bush would have us emulate the Roman empire, creating world order by giving orders around the … in New York gave a tremendous boost to the advocates of empire within the administration.Ý They sealed their victory … to take us to war against Iraq. But a policy of war and empire will only bring us the fate the Romans suffered: more …