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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
She wrote “The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments,” outlining the ways in which men held women in “absolute tyranny.”
Between the East and the West
Review of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith (Princeton University Press 2009)
… and peoples as disconnected as history books imply? In Empires of the Silk Road , Christopher Beckwith unites the … the spacious field of Central Eurasian history. Throughout Empires of the Silk Road , Beckwith argues against the … two continental powers.) After both world wars, political revolutions proliferated; millions of Central Eurasians …
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)
… Modern examines the long history of China, from the Qing Empire (1644-1912) to the present day. The book attempts to … by nationalist thought, which would bring down the Qing Empire altogether. Chiang Kai-Shek (right) militarized …
Patriot or Pragmatist?
Review of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
… holiday. Through all the upheavals of France’s century of revolutions (1789-1871), the events of July 14 retained … to its writing, which set the precedent for all the revolutions of the modern age. It is a privilege which we …
The Boston Massacre
… in the massacre also mirrored the diversity of the British Empire. Fifty percent of these soldiers were Irish, another … autonomy then occurred in a diverse and complicated British Empire, where ethnic, religious, local, and imperial … ironically, the collapse of the remnants of the British Empire has created a similar situation in Hong Kong in 2020 …
Ten Memorable Monument Takedowns in History
… to the early years of Western Civilization. In the Roman Empire , emperors were subject to an evaluation by the … statues, Napoleon I constructed monuments to his First Empire. Most notably, the Emperor built an approximation of … by successive regimes. Seeking to solidify the Second Empire’s claims to world domination, Napoleon III outfitted …
China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”
… puts it) by Western powers in China. It then recounts the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century—first …
Iran for Beginners
Review of A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, by Michael Axworthy (New York. Basic Books. 2008)
… Middle East, Asia, and even Europe. The book's subtitle, Empire of the Mind , refers to the fact that even though … After this section, Axworthy discusses the first Persian Empire, the Achaemenids (550BC-330BC), founded by Cyrus, … He also underlines the fact that Persia's wealth attracted Ottoman, Afghan, British, and Russian attacks throughout …
The End of the World as They Knew It
Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… The end of the Roman empire is punctuated by important and well-known events: … Traina does contend throughout that the Roman empire in 428 was still a "real entity" and not a "mere … to whom we are introduced). In other words, the Roman empire still mattered institutionally not just conceptually …
What Happened to Louis XVI? A Swift Public Execution
On January 20, 1793, the deputies decreed Louis’ guilt and his punishment by death.
Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
It was the spark that emboldened the people’s movement to overthrow King Louis XVI.
Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle
Review of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, by Odd Arne Westad (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… present-day China and its possible development. Restless Empire extends the vision of China's interaction with the … failure in the First Opium War (1839-42) broke down the empire's 18th-century frameworks for foreign affairs. … others treat China (p. 642). Within 11 chapters, Restless Empire lets us sail through the past 250 years, a period …
