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… and undertake giant public works. He manipulates his media empire to thrust his image into every nook and cranny of the … his fortune and the operations of his vast secret offshore empires. There was an array of serious charges, including …

… the extent of vodka’s influence across the history of the empire has been utterly tragic. Drunken feasts accompanied … Russian thirst for alcohol – and both were ousted as their empires collapsed. Anyone who has studied Russian culture …

… had purchased their submarine, Zaharoff turned to the Ottoman Turks alerting them to the new danger now emanating … of the arms trade to the stability and control of their empires, and thus found a common interest in strictly …

… claim that the trading networks that supported vast empires were often created and maintained by ocean-going … trading prowess clear when explaining that the Portuguese Empire emerged from a network of trading posts. One of the …

… in human history, going back to the Iron Age and the great empires of antiquity. During the age of European … follow pre-established political and social networks (of empire and diasporic communities), and occupy employment … one historian to describe the situation there as “a whole empire walking.” Continuing conflict between Turkey and …

… And what allowed him to create China's legendary first empire was his ability to drain wetlands, build levees, … that there has been conflict between the Chinese Empire and its pastoralist neighbors, the Loess Plateau is …

… in Germany were part of a larger wave of anti-communist revolutions throughout Eastern Europe. The year 1989 , often …

… a number of European influences. The architecture of empire is still reflected in the architecture of prominent … the Presidency (an administrative division of the British empire in India). Established in 1857, the University …

… represented a second country superimposed on the Soviet empire, an “archipelago” in which each camp was an island …

… the United States should remember and interpret the social revolutions of the 1960s and early 1970s. One can speculate …