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… It was the first time in Pakistan’s turbulent political history that one democratically elected government served … from a different political party. For half of its history Pakistan has been ruled by the military and … the east. When the first general election in Pakistan’s history finally took place, the Awami League won 167 of 169 …

… the Chinese state and the Uyghurs that is rooted in a history of empire and, more recently, of settler … colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. Two Views of the … of Communist rule in 1949. A Different Chronology of Uyghur History The official Chinese claim is teleological and …

… political scientist Francis Fukuyama to declare the “end of history,” by which he meant the triumph of liberal … Euromaidan revolution and Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea , the Cold War is not a distant history. Prominent public figures in both the United States …

… other's throats because of the political and socio-economic history of the province. Nor, for all their theological … and son-in-law, was legitimate. Early in Islamic history, some Shi'i Muslims began to publicly denounce the … Islam." Iraqi Shi'is were stimulated by the appearance of books and periodicals from Istanbul and the example of …

… Memorial on the old dry dock commemorating Leith’s maritime history (right). Despite its royal connections, Leith has … is steeped in its labor roots. Today, the memory of that history is told through public art, historic preservation, … directed by Danny Boyle. This painful part of Leith’s history was immortalized in Irvine Welsh’s 1993 book …

… a key characteristic of how Americans view their national history and the evolution of U.S. society—an important part … of people annually, migration in the Americas has a deep history that can help formulate sound policies at the local, … in the middle and long terms. In the United States, history suggests that immigration policies must reflect two …

… with political intrigue. Filling a hole in literary history is Drowne's intention. Although the force of her … To her credit, I find myself compelled to read many of the books that she critiques in order to supplement my rather …

… factors, and basic disagreements over the narrative of history. Over the years, the geography of the conflict has … previous efforts at peace, remain viable approaches. A Prehistory of the Current Conflict Most historians date the … to the Oslo Accords Together with the British Mandate pre-history and the 1948 war, the 1967 Six Day War is considered …

… looking for overarching themes or lessons from presidential history might be disappointed, or at the least, find them … did, or didn’t do, in the larger environment of American history. … Review of Presidents and the American Environment …

… simply exist on the peripheries of either civilization or history. Djerdap has served as a place of conquest and … inside the city. Golubac and Diana both speak to the history of expansion and conquest in the Balkans. But the … And time in Djerdap asks one to meditate on their history not just in terms of conquest of civilizations, but …

… of evidence. Out of this basic framework comes a grand history of our universe … and plenty of mysteries yet to be solved. Let’s explore some of the best moments in the history of the universe (from our human perspective). 1. The … the universe, which had been steadily easing throughout its history, began to speed up. Accelerate. We don’t know what …

… June 29, 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare’s last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile … event 400 years later, the metanarrative of the Globe’s history takes on the qualities of a Shakespearean romance. …

… in the world, has all but disappeared. This is the modern history of Khorezm, the fertile region that unfolds along … one of the worst environmental disasters in contemporary history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and … Khorezm itself claims more than two millennia of recorded history: a precious “jewel” in the middle of the …

… victory and socialist surge must take into account the long history of both social welfare and socialism in France—and … were on display in the election campaign. But, the longer history of France's post-war social compact and government … socialist success. The Post-War Social Consensus and the History of French Socialism It may come as news to many …

… languages, and cultures today. He said, “Anyone who knows history has to agree that what those people [the Spaniards] … the victory to Cortes (1520).” Ultimately, the issues of history and narration in the fall of Tenochtitlan underlie … maintain a certain autonomy, communal identity, shared history, and ancestral connection to the traumas of 1521. …

… The Caucasus Mountains are one of history’s great transition and contact regions, crossroads … the Aragvi lies the ancient Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, whose history is inextricably linked to Georgia’s conversion. View … turned out to have an impressive collection of works of history and literature in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and …

… species. Global climate has changed a lot over Earth’s history. At least twice during the Proterozoic (2.5 billion … may have covered the planet. At other times in the Earth history, climate was much warmer, with no ice caps or … evolved during the Pleistocene Epoch, a cold time in Earth history marked by long ice ages and shorter, warmer …

… ifdischarge, repeatedly if repeatedly there was asking any history of illness at him with the mattress and got him up … and another ence., and providing testimoniesthere was any history of illness 1n in Edwards family, anything that … in America, which episodically chronicles the Quakers history once studied at Boston under the or latethe whether …

… a single trade agreement that he liked, in all of American history, Sanders’ answer was simple: no. The anti-trade mood … ushered in one of the greatest partisan shifts in American history. When Franklin Roosevelt and the Democratic Party … TPP, it would be the largest regional trade agreement in history. A map depicting signatories (orange) and potential …

… “enemies” as American political and media elites contend? History tells us otherwise. Although the bad episodes are … moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably antagonistic. …

… popular culture as posters, Advo cards, billboards, movies, books and magazine articles, television programs, and … have taken place in many places and times throughout history, and they are part of fairy tales and folk legends. … of modern life. More from the Author For more on the history of child abduction and the history of children in …

… in 1835: “The misery hardly finds a parallel in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton-weavers are … analogies to Luddism can, admittedly, be found within the history of American labor . Perhaps the most striking … system was “a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized …

… arguably the most pro-China candidate in Taiwan's history, had won the election with a 2-million vote margin … multiparty election in Taiwan's modern—that is, post-1949 history (the first was held in 1996)—Ma ran on a platform … half prior to Ma's May 20 inauguration). DPP, KMT, and the History of Taiwan's Political Landscape The DPP is just over …