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Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai

The Suez Crisis (1956)

… among Arab peoples as a leader who had defied European empires and survived a military invasion by Israel. The …
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in 1973.

The Atomic Age

… this case the Atomic Age ended a decade ago, didn’t it? The Revolutions of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the …
This is the third Strasbourg astronomical clock which is located in the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was built in 1843, the first clock was built 1352-1354.

Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages

Review of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, by E.R. Truitt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
… Christian West, the Islamic world and Byzantine and Mongol empires. Throughout the medieval period the Latin Christian …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… Church against modernity in the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of 1848 in Europe. Pope Pius IX with the clergy … legal systems governing early-modern cities, states, and empires. This ecclesiastical law had a remarkably broad …

South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid

… 1910 and gave it considerable autonomy as a dominion of the Empire, but the Boers remained resentful. Tents in the … to South Africa in 1993 and built an extensive business empire. By the time of Zuma’s presidency, the Guptas were …

Right-Wing Politics in India

… Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals) and finally the British Empire . Impatient with the strategy of passive resistance …
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Critique of NATO’s Expansion

… Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 just as the Austro-Hungarian empire disintegrated in 1919, at the end of World War I. …
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.

LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates

… objects played important roles in the promotion of empire, illustrating the so-called primitiveness of African … heritage is by now recognized as a universal value. Undoing empire through the return of cultural heritage, however, has …
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
… a longer period of peace than at any time since the Roman Empire." Furthermore he contends that with the end of the …
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.

A Long History of Close Shaves

Review of Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)