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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Review of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America , by Ira Katznelson (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005), preface, appendix, index, 238 pp.
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… I helped to bring on the collapse of the four East European empires (Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian, and Ottoman), and the establishment of a number of new …
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 …
1885: A European Colonial Dream and an African Nightmare
… to the role of the European , Russian , American , and Ottoman diplomats rather than the Africans who had to live …
Energy, Deregulation and Prosperity
… and soft energy faded as the computer and Internet revolutions and the discovery of abundant, clean-burning …
How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen
Review of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company)
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)
Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain
… Book , 1444-1445. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire and invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by the …
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 United States, China, and the Money Question
… its end, it became one of the largest and most prosperous empires in the world whose trade goods—teas, silks, …
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 …
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
… and intellectual historian of modern France and its empire with the focus on the 20th century. She's currently …
