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The University of Algiers Library Bombing
… began in 1830, when France invaded Algeria and defeated the Ottoman ruler. Over the nineteenth century, the French …
Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
… Russia had been fortunate to escape falling under the Roman Empire. As a result, Russia was not contaminated by Roman …
The Suez Crisis (1956)
… among Arab peoples as a leader who had defied European empires and survived a military invasion by Israel. The …
Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines
… the Philippines. He responded to American enthusiasm for empire by organizing a guerrilla campaign that lasted from …
Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines
… the Philippines. He responded to American enthusiasm for empire by organizing a guerrilla campaign that lasted from …
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 …
A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History
… Current and contributed to food instability as far as Ottoman Egypt, causing between 2-6 million deaths worldwide. …
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 …
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… Century. Alexios, desperate to save his beleaguered empire, found in Pope Urban perhaps his most important ally. …
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 …
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge
Review of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006)
… creation of a Western identity, propelled the process of Empire building, and aided in the production of knowledge …
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 …
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Review of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… it gets our attention, provokes us to sort through the empire of images that forms our world, and to foster …
