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… crises while others select the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century. A number of particularly astute … Roman legacy following the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. It is an effective concluding point prior … A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (2012), which examines the misuse …

… Maribeau B. Lamar, decided to make Texas the seat of future empire.  Under his leadership, the republic tried to enforce … 1821-1854" (1997) and "Blood and Treasure:  Confederate Empire in the Southwest" (1995) , and is a writer for the …

… immense wealth circulated among rulers of African ethnic empires, European slave traders, and wealthy colonial slave …

… The Birth of Soviet Ukraine. When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 during World War I , the lands of …

… Spain was the first Western nation to create a truly global empire. Through inheritance, colonization, and conquest the … Portugal, and significant economic decline. Her New World Empire was especially vulnerable to coastal raids and …

… the Americas, and the Netherlands had developed an Asian empire. And by the 19th century Western Europe's domination reached its apex in Queen Victoria's empire, over which truly the sun never set. How did …

… recent   In the Museum of the Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950  received the Ohio Academy of …

… emperor (r. 1735-1796), who declared, “Our celestial empire possesses all things in abundance and lacks no …

… the hero of Salamis and founder of the Athenian naval empire are obvious first choices, but Roisman also includes … overlooked Spartan navarch Lysander who shattered that empire. Similarly, one expects to see Epaminondas and …

… the author of "A Mission to Civilize the Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa 1895 to 1930." Her new book … Anthropology, Racial Science and Humanism in France and its Empire 1850 to 1950". We're speaking with Professor Conklin …

… of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must reassert its … words echo the title of the 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, by the Republican Patrick Buchanan.   "We have been …

… teach classes on modern European history and the history of empires and nationalism in a global and European context. … sort of tread upon satellite states of a monolithic Soviet Empire, on the fringe of Europe, but certainly a status as … And Lauren Henry, historian of modern France and the French Empire with OSU's Department of History. A big thank you to …

… since the launch of the modern industrial scientific revolutions around 1870. Taking place a little more than a century ago, these revolutions brought us household electricity, the internal …

… pardon the beginning snail-like pace—this preeminent global empire is pulling colonized freight cars from almost every … their abrupt treatment of the disintegration of the British Empire. Passengers by now may have realized that the train …

… all, during the entire, well from the time of the Russian empire, the Ukrainian language was banned so Russian became … later. And when _______ ended up being incorporated into empires, it was the Lithuanian empire and the _________ Commonwealth and and so on, until …

… was built as a marker of the northern limits of the Roman Empire and stands as a testament to its vast expanse. …

… into a political tool. Monarchs, princes, states, and empires aligned as either Protestant or Catholic and … occurred primarily in the Germanic lands of the Holy Roman Empire and pitted Catholic rulers against their Protestant … choice, and brought to an effective end the Holy Roman Empire. A painting by Gerard ter Borch of the ratification …

… troops played many roles in the service of the British Empire in World War I; here, Indian bicycle troops are … demonstrate India’s readiness for Dominion status within an Empire that he believed inherently just. The Rowlatt Acts …