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Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro

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)
… manages to be such a story. In documenting the first international scientific expedition to measure a degree of … result of this process would be a command from the French National Constituent Assembly to form a new set of … Basic Books, 2011) … Robert Clemm … Reviews … Global/Transnational … France … Science & Technology … Early Modern … …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.

Discovering Pluto

… debate about Pluto’s planetary status. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU)—the organization generally in charge of …
Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.

What's in a Name?

Review of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty , by Kirsten McKenzie (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010)
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… to Ukraine by Khrushchev and its role in the late- to post-Soviet world. The book finishes with an epilogue about … Ukraine, http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Crimea/ (retrieved May 23, 2016). … Review of …
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

… as fragile as ever. 1  Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic  (Yale University …
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).

Why We Love the Vikings

… countries in Europe were looking backward to form their national identities.  While the English saw the Nordics as …
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… Orthodox Church elected a new Pope, and the Anglican Communion got a new primate and I kind of discussed why there … were new groups that broke off including the Anglican Communion, which is now also a worldwide organization.   Patrick … the Vatican says, and does versus what actually happens in national and local churches. So what, to what extent is the …
bowl of pills with a black background

The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… drugs, observers must examine domestic, regional, and international contexts all at once.   Miriam Kingsberg Kadia  I … States is absolutely responsible for creating an international framework to wage its particular war on drugs … have a commitment to civil liberties and free trade, international trade. As long as that happens, stopping the flow …
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).

Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films

… the previous four decades that spoke to a larger social or national project, Dil Chahta Hai was just about the lives of …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… and Richard Pipes, which seek to find precedence for Soviet crimes in Lenin's early behavior, Rappaport's study …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… the British diet has often been the subject of international ridicule, the system that sustained it has been … We'll see you next time. … Nicholas Breyfogle … Global/Transnational … Food & Agriculture … Public Health, Disease, and …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… hoped they would help rehabilitate their country in international eyes after the horrors of Nazism, and nothing … hostage crisis reverberated. The massacre was met with international horror. Global news coverage of the violent attack … Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993– Book by Yezid Sayigh Bergman, …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… virus, which was successfully administered to millions of Soviet children in 1959. Sabin’s vaccine was then widely … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Top Tens … Top Ten Origins: Vaccination …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… the heavens… … Benjamin Breen … Milestones … Diplomacy/International Relations … Global/Transnational … Colonialism/Imperialism … Central Asia … A …
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England

Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor

… st century. … Aaron Cavin … Top Ten Origins … Global/Transnational … Cities/Urban & Rural … Class & Labor … Top Tens … …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… fact, an attempt to manufacture unity and restore national pride. The reality of living in an occupied city …

Hong Kong in Protest

… The civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and their nationalist rivals forced over a million Chinese to migrate …
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).

Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood

… greatest Indian film ever made, it received unmatched international recognition and ushered in a new cinema movement. … Court defied all expectations, becoming the most internationally decorated Indian film with as many as 19 awards … To Let won the best Tamil film award at the 65th Indian national film awards. 10. Village Rockstars (Assamese, 2018) …