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… checkered political history as a contested zone among rival empires.  The “Nagorno” part is Russian for “mountainous.”  … an alliance with Peter, to resist against an invading Ottoman army.   Iranian influence over the region was …

… from their base in Afghanistan. Map of the Khorezmian Empire in 1217 C.E. During this period Khorezm became more … Khiva continued to be a protectorate under the Russian Empire until the Empire itself came to an end in the Bolshevik Revolution and …

… the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high water mark of French imperialism and … the author of In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 from Cornell University Press. …

… It was here that the collapsing Habsburg and Romanov empires fought a doomed battle in World War I and where Nazi … Galicia, a territory that found itself part of the Habsburg Empire, interwar Poland, and Soviet Ukraine all within the … the particularities of life in the rapidly changing Russian empire.  Even a common religious foundation eluded these …

… U.S. foreign policy. The third president's "empire of liberty" amounted to more than acquiring the … "teeming mass of ideas" linked to the American and French Revolutions, the humanitarian "association mania," as the … debated the merits of militarily intervening to stop Ottoman atrocities against its Armenian subjects. Despite …

… southern and eastern Romania, were conquered by the Roman Empire in 106 CE. During the almost 165 years of Roman … Wallachians.  The two principalities gradually submitted to Ottoman rule during the 1400s and 1500s, while … Mihai Pătrașcu, voivode of Wallachia, revolted against his Ottoman overlords. By 1599, “Mihai the Brave,” was …

… of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom. The two revolutions, needless to say, had different trajectories – …

… created nations out of the old Hapsburg and Ottoman empires. Even though the Communist Revolution in Russia in …

… from Singapore, then an important colony in Britain’s Asian empire and now an economic powerhouse. ( Image Source ) … Bosnia, was to liberate Bosnia from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to unify with other south Slavs and independent … Second Balkan war. First, they were fighting against the Ottoman Empire and then they fought against Bulgaria. So, …

… after the 1905 Revolution swept through the Russian Empire. Because modern Belarusian nationhood followed this … like many of the former regions of the Habsburg and Russian Empires, began the twentieth century as a rural, agrarian … albeit one not split across the Habsburg and Romanov empires. Like in Ukraine, the first stirrings of modern …

… the 19th century, which is what they call Turco-Egyptian or Ottoman and then you have the European colonial rule in the … day territories of South Sudan. As you know, the Ottoman Empire was trying to expand in East Africa along the Red Sea … to compare what's happening in Sudan with the wave of revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa in …

… when it emerged on the global stage when did the Orthodox Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, was much more desirous of being a pan-Slavic empire than, of course, most recently a communist empire, with global ambitions, and then presently, something …

… is not unprecedented. >From the original giant retail empire founded by Frank Woolworth in Utica, N.Y., in 1879 to … the beauty of the discount concept and then built an empire. Woolworth’s work to establish bargain shopping apart …

… book to appear in the United States.   They initiated twin revolutions: one brought by Lincoln — the Civil War and the … for Lincoln’s political and moral actions.   Both revolutions share a commitment to the same proposition: that … for different reasons, helps explain the opposition to the revolutions unleashed by Lincoln and Darwin, and why many …

… ambitions. And it's certainly true that the American Empire is not comparable to let's say, the British Empire, the Roman Empire, we do Empire our own way. That said, I've long come …