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Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… the opposite: that nation states, just like kingdoms and empires, flounder and fail when they have chronic and … the whole of England, and ultimately throughout the British Empire and beyond. Moreover, the bank’s freely convertible …
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.

Who are the Taliban?

… Reagan administration’s confidence that the Soviet “evil empire” could be defeated by religion, whether Catholicism …
Cover of Guantánamo, USA The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost by Stephen Irving Max Schwab.

Guantanamo For Beginners

Review of Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost, by Stephen Irving Max Schwab (University Press of Kansas, 2009)
Portrait of Martin Luther

Martin Luther and the Reformation

… his theses in 1517, Wittenberg was part of the Holy Roman Empire, a loosely organized confederation of states and … that would result in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh. By the 1530s, it was … governments faced, for the first time since the Roman Empire, the existence of competing groups that all defined …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… and gyros. After a predetermined number of engine revolutions, their engines would stall and the UAVs would … the desperation with which Axis powers flung it as their empire began to unravel. Originally dismissed by the … Wings Comics , depicts swarms of buzz bombs threatening the Empire State Building and exploding in Times Square. …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… side, they look, especially at the end of the Roman Empire and they say that Rome fell because of immigration … ideas of difference and playing those out and things like Empire and slavery.   Jessica Vinas-Nelson So is that the …

The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

… and modernity. Far to the west, in the territory of the Ottoman Sultan, the reform-minded Young Turk nationalist … gained in popularity and influence. It was there, in the Ottoman Empire, that Mahmud Tarzi, the most important figure in …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… north and China to the southeast. Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, … from St Petersburg, the far-off capital of the Russian Empire, for sedition against the tsarist government. …
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.

Jamaican Independence

… nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British empire in the Caribbean. Jamaica had been a Spanish colony … doi:10.1080/1369801042000185642 Hart, Richard. The End of Empire: Transition to Independence in Jamaica and Other …