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India-Pakistan Partition

In 1947, British-ruled India was divided into two separate, independent states.
… India and Pakistan. Their independence from the British Empire in 1947 prompted a wave of decolonization that spread …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… African states since the heyday of liberation from European empires in the early 1960s. The first stage witnessed the …
Poinsette

The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations

In the late 1820s, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to Americans, who marveled at its foliage.
… Mexico, 2011). Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… Pakistan was created during independence from the British empire in 1947 . At that time, the South Asian subcontinent …
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… on the social margins to the patriarch of a vast religious empire.  More confounding to biographers, Young's opinions …
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover

The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age

Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… Spanish conquistadors tamed this new land and conquered its empires, thus paving the way for Spanish and subsequent …
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles

The Versailles Treaty Fight

… vast, baroque Clock Room of the Quai d’Orsay, the Second Empire-style headquarters of the French Foreign Ministry in …
a group of Ukrainian theatre performers on a stage

Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage

On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war, a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth.
… for control of this region after the Romanov and Habsburg empires collapsed. Audiences and artists knew uncertainty, …
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, Jeffrey Ostler, and others saw …
Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

Japan’s Meiji Restoration, or Meiji Ishin, occurred on January 3, 1868, and marked the return of the Japanese emperor to a position of power for the first time in more than 500 years.