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A Postcard from Nagorno-Karabakh
… “black,” and “bakh” being Persian for “garden,” therefore meaning “black garden.” However, as Karabakh scholar Emil …
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Review of The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science, by Adrian Tinniswood (New York: Basic Books, 2019.)
Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord
… government and mainstream media sources represented the meaning and conduct of the war. I recently completed a book, …
Alawites and the Fate of Syria
… control of Syria in 1920, imposed the name “Alawite,” meaning the followers of Ali, in order to accentuate the …
The Second Opium War
… ago. When the Second Opium War has been remembered, its meaning and legacy has often been twisted. At the time, it …
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
Review of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
… nuclear age as well as conveying the cultural and political meanings of the bomb to the larger public. From the end of …
The Blood Behind the Beauty
Review of The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, by Catherine Fletcher (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020)
President Bush at His — and Our — Crossroads
… The president still has time to avoid the mistakes that plagued Andrew Johnson’s presidency. He can strengthen …
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC
Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)
… chapter it is easy to understand why their function and meaning remain hotly contested. But they have played a major …
Sanitizing American Tradition
Review of Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo, by Jack David Eller (London: Reaktion Books, 2018)
