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One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… fear that tiny Cuba would bring about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t always so. …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… accompanied the creation of the modern state of Nigeria. Empires and Islamization: 16 th -18 th Centuries Maiduguri, … resources needed to make such a system viable. Kanem Borno empire (dashed line), circa 1380-1870  A serious crisis … forged strong diplomatic alliances with the sultans of the Ottoman Empire and the sultans of Morocco, which fostered …

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… once the elation of "revolution" subsided. As in so many revolutions, it was much easier to tear down the old than to … of Yugoslavia PDF File ] Revolution, Then What? The "revolutions of 1989" did not follow the classic example of a … and spread paranoid conspiracy theories. New media empires served the interests of the political elites and …
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

… and the rise and fall of nations, you might want to read Empire of Cotton . Sven Beckert tells a sprawling history of … historical topics. This book ties together the rise of empires, the spread of slavery, the evolution of capitalism, … upheaval and united people across the modern world. While Empire of Cotton tells a global history, Bryant Simon’s The …
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

… fell in the sphere of influence of, variously, Iran , the Ottoman Empire, and Russia. Recently, I traveled to the … “living.” Some 1400 years later, Georgia was supplying the Ottoman Empire, and Iran under the Safavid and Qajar …

Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… in the face of continuous attacks and invasions. In the Ottoman era (1517-1918), ill treatment continued as Alawites … to communal practices such as Christians and Jews) by the Ottoman government in Istanbul. On the other hand, during … against the Ottoman monarchy in 1908 and ruled the empire until 1918—accelerated the cooperation of the …
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion

… we feature Top Ten moments in women’s fashion history. 1. Empire Waist All image captions read from left to right:   … This style was popular throughout the First French Empire, 1804-1814, causing the high waistline under the bust to be referred to as an “empire” waist. High waists, one shoulder necklines and …
"Terracotta Warriors" in China

Ancient China and the Peasant Emperor

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
Ancient History
World History to 1500
… contextualizes the content in terms of the different world revolutions, including the American Revolutionary War. …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… antiquity, that is the period between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Middle Ages. Her most recent … pandemic of bubonic plague in the late Roman or Byzantine Empire. And we first hear about it in our sources starting … sanitaire against the plague eruptions coming from the Ottoman Empire. As as it was, with the rise of the National …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… Ararat in the no man's land just inside Iran's border with Ottoman Turkey. Outraged by what the U.S. ambassador labeled … the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Seven months later on his way …
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… the author of The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.   John Brooke  Hi, I'm John Brooke. I teach in the …
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… history books (as was the recent fate of the entire Mughal Empire in the Indian educational curriculum). In a similar … political movements. When Aurangzeb took power, the Mughal Empire had ruled large parts of India since its founding in … a prince from Central Asia. Under Babur’s descendants, the empire steadily expanded and emerged as one of the …
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)
… us in this fascinating tale of imposture in the British empire.  McKenzie first visualized the story when suffering … and imposture which reached right across the British empire and linked the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" … "Dow" to the deeper changes that were reshaping the British empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth …
Lydia Walker

Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents

… ways that the state-centric international system replaced empire, which left certain claims of sovereignty perpetually … ways that the state centric international system replaced Empire, which left certain claims of sovereignty perpetually … about postwar decolonization, which is the process where empires were transformed into states after the Second World …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… a Professor of History at Ohio State, and a scholar of the Ottoman Empire. Leticia Wiggins  Thank you all for joining us today. … because I'm originally from Turkey, and I'm studying Ottoman history. So in that part, I don't have that …