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Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… 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. …
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Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom

… 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 …

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… 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 …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… 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 …
Cover of A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom.

Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons

Review of A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment, by Philipp Blom (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty

The Missing "Third" of the Third World

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)
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.

Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson

Review of 'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… 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 …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… 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, …
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover

The Jamestown Project

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 …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… 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 …
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover

Clashing Shades of Red

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 …