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The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi painting by Theodoros Vryzakis.

An Historic Question: Over There or Over Here?

… debate about helping the Greeks in their revolt against the Ottoman Turks in 1821, members of Congress asked if the … here-ism.” The Greek effort to throw off the yoke of the Ottoman Empire at first seemed doomed to failure. But the longer the …
In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers. Wikimedia Commons https://theconversation.com/ukraine-as-a-borderland-a-brief-history-of-ukraines-place-between-europe-and-russia-178168

Ukraine in War and Revolution

The decade of war and revolution between 1914 and 1924 is critical for understanding both Russian and Ukrainian statehood up to the present day.
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire attempts to place both these men, and their meeting, … I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire , by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University … I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… fact that, you know, World War I was the end of the era of empires, right, you know. So, because the Ottoman Empire fractured and fell, that was the last in … point as refugees were actually the Armenians fleeing the Ottoman Empire after the Armenian genocide and under this …
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.

Ukraine in War and Revolution

… for Russian nationalist thinkers in the waning days of the empire. Right-wing, proto-fascist movements supported by the …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… they had used the term "genocide" in reference to the Ottoman treatment of Armenians in 1915. In the name of … has denied the existence of the genocide, and the number of Ottoman scholars, both within that country and abroad, who … The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire , by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University …
Philippoteaux - Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag.

The Challenges of 1848 Reprised in the Middle East Today

… in Eastern Europe that ended the Cold War. But the 1848 revolutions in Europe may actually provide a better … the modern Middle East had forerunners in the kingdoms and empires that ruled in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. …   One of the most interesting parallels between the revolutions of 1848 in Europe and of 2011 in the Middle East …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… rich multicultural past before its conquest by the Russian Empire. It also conceals the inconvenient fact that ethnic … L. Hightower II … Reviews … Europe … Ukraine … Russia … Ottoman Empire … Military/War/Peace … Ukraine, In a Nutshell …
France and Its Empire Since 1870 Second Edition Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky

Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870

… France and Its Empire Since 1870, Second Edition Recently updated edition … shrouded in myths, many of its own making-- France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks both to understand these myths and … … Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870 …
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
… arguing that understanding the workings of the British empire helps us to comprehend colonial fracture and vice … time and our own. … Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic , by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford …
The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 painting by William L. Champney depicting British soldiers with guns raised toward Black man

The Boston Massacre

The “Boston Massacre,” was a turning-point in relations between American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution.
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… to the world.” As Mi Gyung Kim describes in The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe , the … them by the authoritarian regime. Given that  The Imagined Empire  largely depicts pre-revolutionary France, it begs … French state, yet the evidence presented in The Imagined Empire depicts the balloon as more of an “inventor” or …