… information . Comparisons between the print and digital revolutions, while compelling, can also overlook new … Augustine’s masterpiece The City of God reflected an empire on its last legs. Everywhere, the old order stumbled. …
… both a part of Europe and also apart from Europe. The Empire crucially has always been a major part of Britain's … who oversees the beginning of the end of the British Empire, he comes to power following the resignation of … on that African continent. And with the breakup of Empire, though you still have the Commonwealth, there's, I …
… and military interests across America’s globe-spanning empire of military bases, alliances, and covert assets. A … the international community from a pre-1945 order of empires to a postwar order of interdependent and … United States exists today. Yet the globe-spanning military empire that it fashioned in its geo-ideological battles with …
… Musk had revealed that he had built his vast business empire primarily in order to make colonization of other … Center Visitor Complex exhibit on Mars ( bottom ). Mars as Empire and Utopia The yearning to homestead other worlds … underpin many 20 th -century arguments for extraterrestrial empire on the “final frontier.” Innumerable novels and …
Review of Latin America and the Global Cold War, by Thomas C. Field, Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
… were areas that were on the frontier between the Mughal Empire, centered in India, the Safavid Empire in Iran, and the Uzbek Khanates up to the north. It … of Afghanistan. Three years later, in 1896, the Russian Empire established their own political boundaries with the …
… on missionary networks that extended throughout the U.S. empire in the Pacific, the United States and China, among … with opium in the first place—in the age of colonialism and empire, the vanquished endured what they had to. Over time, …
Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… understand how it relates to the foundations of the English empire and the development of colonial America. The … the possibilities of cutting into the monopolies and empires of the Catholic powers of continental Europe and the … men and women became fascinated with the possibilities of empire. Such interest could be seen in the voracity with …
… meant also judging the two decades of revolution, war and empire that had preceded it. In defeating Napoleon, did … Many cherished French institutions originated during the Empire, from the Legion of Honor to the civil code …
Review of The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
… argument for answer C. The collapse of the Soviet Empire and the start of America's so-called "War on Terror" … be read alongside such works as Vladamir Zubok's A Failed Empire , Chen Jian's Mao's China and the Cold War , and Odd …
… Kyivan Rus , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the OttomanEmpire . By the late 1700s, the territory had been absorbed into the Russian Empire by the famed General Alexander Suvorov. In the late …