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Long Live the Soviet Motherland?
Review of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II, by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012)
… peoples who would have preferred not to be part of the empire. Stalin created a hierarchy of nationalities, with …
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
… place to another. This is one of the aqueducts of the Roman Empire, the Pont du Gaud in Avignon in southern France, and …
The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony
Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
Early American Contagions
… places; they forced cultural, economic, and social revolutions among Indigenous polities. Surely these …
Poinsettia Day, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S.-Mexican Relations
… Mexico, 2011). Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: …
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
Apres Poutine ? Les Elections Presidentielles Russes
… ), la préservation de la nation ( sberezhenie natsii ), l'empire ( imperiia ) ou la patrie ( rodina ou otechestvo ) …
The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel
… very, very small, right? Out of all the people in the Roman Empire. And so the subset of Christians who were into this … there were so few Christians in this, you know, huge Roman Empire, they kind of knew about each other. Yeah. You know, …
Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture
… War , and the acquisition of the Philippines. The Roman Empire could thus serve, in the words of Margaret Malamud, … of the corruption and decadence that brought down the Roman Empire, Americans could still enjoy the spectacle. Athletes …
