Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
… colonial India gained its independence from the British Empire in 1947, and was partitioned into the separate states …
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A Man for All Seasons
Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… it hardly seems significant that in the video game Age of Empires 'Ave Caesar' scenario "[t]he player (not the digital …
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
Review of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
… to inspire Ukrainians living in Habsburg lands. After the revolutions and civil war that briefly led to the first-ever …
The Taiwan Strait Conflict
… Asia. When the Allied powers dissolved Japan’s overseas empire in 1945, Taiwan was returned to Nationalist China. …
A Postcard from the Ural Mountains
… all the Muscovite lands, and expanded their vast commercial empire into agriculture, fishing, hunting, and mining. …
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
… Lady Mary Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, observed the process of inoculation by variolation, …
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
… I. However, as a consequence of Ali Dinar's links with the Ottoman Empire during the war, the British invaded and annexed …
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis
… Zionists arrived in Palestine, the country was part of the Ottoman Empire . After World War I it fell to British rule, which …
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
… on an imperialistic struggle against the crumbling Spanish empire. There was ferocious resistance to what became the …
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
… son Octavian to become the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Considering what was to come, the crossing of the …
India-Pakistan Partition
… India and Pakistan . Their independence from the British Empire in 1947 prompted a wave of decolonization that spread …
