Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference
… business would help the East India Company stay afloat, the empire would get its taxes, and, because middlemen would no …
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Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?
Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
Review of Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011)
… from the ashes of the six-hundred-year-long Islamic Ottoman Empire. In fact the legacy that he and his supporters have … that had previously received only limited support in Ottoman and Turkish societies" (6). The book begins with …
Byzantium for Dummies
Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
… place in history, as the continuation of the Roman Empire from the reign of Constantine, who moved the capital … Egypt and extending over Persia. Eventually, it fell to the Ottoman Empire. Byzantium fulfills some of our ideas about … down to the 15th century, when Byzantium falls to the Ottoman Empire. Herrin sets about her goal by dividing her …
Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
Emily Channell-Justice explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14.
The Birth of Peronism
On October 17, 1945, hundreds of thousands of Juan Perón's supporters clogged the streets of Buenos Aires marking a consequential moment in Argentina’s history and the birth of Peronism.
Racism, Hate and Free Speech: The Search for New Boundaries of Sensitivity
… these cases reflect more than the battles riculums at the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival raging today …
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
A History of Athens Beyond Decline
Review of Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, by Ian Worthington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest book, Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor … 338 BCE, through the wars of the successors to Alexander’s empire, and into Roman influence and then dominance, ending … chapters). As a narrative political history, Athens After Empire is light on argument and analysis. Worthington does …
Medieval Public Relations Battles
Review of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, by Brett Edward Whalen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… communications battle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire that was really a disagreement over strategy rather … ideology. At the heart of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth … the conflict between Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and two different popes who declared war on him, …
The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow
… claimed by the Russian and Polish (and later Austrian) empires. They were only reunited at the end of World War II, … often made by historians of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s … acquired two smaller Ukrainian-populated areas from the Ottomans and the Hungarian Kingdom. All Ukrainian lands in …
The Hajj and Europe
… world’s Muslim states, only Persia , Afghanistan , and the Ottoman Empire escaped European colonization.) In the decades before … the auspices of Islamic empires. The Mamluk, Mughal, and Ottoman imperial governments all spent large sums to support …
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, is no. Based on extensive research in original … of the of the dominant goals for the age: industry and empire." (9) The turn toward the gold standard was part of … Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire , by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University …
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
… state and the Uyghurs that is rooted in a history of empire and, more recently, of settler colonialism. It is … Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) was the last time a China-based empire claimed any control over Xinjiang before the 1750s. … of language and culture to the rest of Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire. Local intellectuals rediscovered the term …
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… of current events in Ukraine would do well to read The Last Empire, Serhii Plokhy’s new history of the demise of the … toward local nationalism. What remained, like the British Empire, was a commonwealth. This is Plokhy’s most forceful … that, yes, the Soviet Union, like tsarist Russia , was an empire. This argument is potential dynamite in light of …
When Ethiopia Stunned the World
Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
… So begins The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire. While no attribution is suggested, it is likely … Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire , by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap …
