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Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
the cover of a Captain America comic book

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… America became a symbol out of time. Cover of Secret Empire #1 (May 2017). Artwork by Mark Brooks (left) . Teaser poster for Secret Empire . Published by Marvel Comics (right). The dramatic … allegory of Nixonian malfeasance, the multi-issue Secret Empire arc culminated at the White House, where writers …
The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address

Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus

… politics of Republican Rome and ushered in the Roman Empire. But for all this violence and intrigue, we recall … the most famous writers in history, a wealthy and expanding empire , and a time of peace for the people within it. And, … veterans. For eleven years Octavian shared rule over the empire with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (whom he sent into exile …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… Napoleon filled his Louve with objects from the new French Empire, ranging from Italy, Egypt. The old adage goes "to … the Chinese gathered things from the hinterlands of their empire in the early modern period. West African empires also … taken, of course, there was no Greece, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. So here we are, again, and who owns them, …
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10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

… things we should know about Brazil’s colorful history of empire, coffee-planter oligarchs, military dictators, and … and working classes through new social welfare programs. 2. Empire, Coffee, and Slaves Slaves drying coffee at … of slavery and 1889 military coup d'état that ended the Empire, Brazil became an oligarchic republic dominated by …

Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity

… Greek and Russian Orthodox. The answer lies in the Roman empire of the fifth century, as Latin- and Greek-speaking … Son’s incarnation as Jesus make sense? In the eastern Roman Empire, Christian leaders developed two basic answers to … of God, a victory for the “one nature” view, and the Roman Empire enforced this position. A large number of dissenting …

Singapore at Fifty

… 1510) and the Johor Sultanate (1511 to 1819), the British Empire (1867 to 1963), and independent Malaysia (1963 to 1965). Singapore was once part of the Srivijaya Empire, location pictured here. Since the seventh century, … late-13 th -century autonomy came when the Sumatran Empire of Srivijaya collapsed in 1275 after seven centuries …
 A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats

The Rise of Freethinkers

Review of The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment , by Michael Hunter (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020)
… up images of religious change, civil war, and scientific revolutions. These historical processes gave rise to another …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… religious dominion under the remote suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, South Yemen had been occupied by the British Empire … a unified British Protectorate. Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, the Ottoman Grand Vizier of Yemen, in 1912 ( left ). Queen …
seedlings

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… PCBs and Agent Orange―to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically … including PCBs and Agent Orange, to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically …

Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies

… was both because the Japanese still occupied most of their empire when they agreed to surrender and because Allied … a destabilizing force in Algerian society. The Portuguese Empire Our next case involves the dissolution of the … memory of occupation by foreign powers, starting with the Ottomans, then the British. As was the case with American …
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.

What to Do About the Money?

Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… barrier. From the late 17th century to 1871 the Habsburg Empire maintained an armed “cordon sanitaire” against plague eruptions from the Ottoman Empire. Michel Serre's painting depicting the 1721 plague …