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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)
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013

At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial

… mathematics and reason from the Christianizing Roman Empire). Jackson surrounds Weisz with a gallery of great … queen who led her people in an uprising against the Roman Empire. Here, the film seems to deliver its final …
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.

“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine

… able to equate those Serbs who fought against the invading Ottoman armies in 1389 with those fighting in the 1980s, … “crimes against peace.” It’s a war of colonization, of empire. An event with global dimension, which rekindles the …
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
… Spanish galleons returning from the newly conquered Incan Empire in the New World. By 1790, the pirates were replaced …