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Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order
… peripheries of the expansive Russian, British, and Chinese empires. By the second half of the nineteenth century, …
A Forgotten Theater of War
Review of India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Srinath Raghavan New York, NY: Basic Books, 2016
… the Persian Gulf, and other parts of Britain’s Asian empire as far east as Singapore. Iran and Iraq were of … subtitle and the importance of India through the British Empire in Asia, it is somewhat surprising that Raghavan does …
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
… to a severe decline in the population of the Roman Empire and, in turn, the onset of a period of economic and military decline in the longer history of the empire. The Justinianic Plague , named after the Byzantine … estimated 30 to 50 million people across the Eastern Roman empire over the course of two centuries, brought about the …
Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America
Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… relationships that connected other tribes and European empires together, Americans sought a new relationship based … transitions between the various peoples, nations, and empires that vied for control over the region from the fall …
Coming to America to Contribute
Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… slavery only in the Caribbean, not the rest of the British Empire. Slavery only became illegal in India in 1848, on the …
100 Years of Irish Independence and Division
… Rule might encourage nationalist movements elsewhere in the Empire . Officers in the British Army also worried about maintaining the Empire and were sympathetic to the position of Ulster …
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
… what they called Asia, a territory dominated by the Persian Empire and generally encompassing what is today Turkey and … attributed the astonishing Greek victory over the Persian Empire to “Greekness” itself. According to these writers, … the social complexity they encountered across their vast empire. It allowed some groups to enter the empire peaceably …
Movement North
Review of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue (New York: Random House, 2008)
The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine
… th -century Ruthenian political movement. After the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 , movements for autonomy from the …
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
… change, whose roots are found in the history of the British Empire in India. So my book takes this long historical … 3 million deaths and made clear the terrible costs of the Empire to India. The Indian nationalist movement had come to …
Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo
… zoo that something's going to happen to it. And then the revolutions in 1905, and the revolutions in 1917 because the Moscow Zoo is such an urban … at, as symbols of conquered wild nature as signifiers of Empire. Whether the humans were Newfins or Samoans or …
