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All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Review of A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps, by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014)
… power disparity. As a result, these problems continue to plague Britain and the world. We hope passengers appreciate …
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
… from intemperance to crime and prostitution on this “plague of strangers.” Epidemic disease became one more …
What to Do About the Money?
Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Modern China and Its Institutions
Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… and uncritical truisms of Chinese history, which sometimes plagues other historical works on the country. Deng Xiaoping …
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
Review of Heretics and Believers: A Short History of the English Reformation, by Peter Marshall New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017
Rough Weather Ahead
Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Figuring Out the Shape of the World
Review of Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor
… aimed to address the crowding, squatting, and slums that plagued the island city. Their first project was the Tiong … there are vast metropolitan regions where there is no meaningful public housing. Yet, thanks to a remarkable …
Paine’s Counsel for a New Time that Tries Men’s Souls
… make this the time that we redeem the most profound meaning of the American Revolution. Let us reaffirm the …
