第五章 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (1688-1990) 大英帝国的兴衰 I. Whigs and Tories 辉格党人和托利党人 These two party names originated with the Glorious Revolution (1688). 这两个政党名称皆起源于1688年的光荣革命。 The Whig were those who opposed absolute monarchy and supported ...
The American Empire Project is a response to the changes that have occurred in America's strategic thinking as well as in its military and economic posture.
Abby Martin investigates this notorious school that is largely hidden from the American public; its crimes around the world, its star graduates, whyit exists and the movement to shut it down. Featuring interviews with School...
after a £75m donation from the Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik, Oxford opened the Blavatnik School of Government. It occupies a purpose-built new building, a great whorl of glass and golden stone, a few hundred yards from ...
Empire State of the South- a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War Georgia,Peach State,GA Kennesaw Mountain- battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under ...
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire took control of Palestine. The Balfour Declaration, a statement of British support for “the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people,” was proclaimed in 1917, in spite of the fact that...
1.the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. 2.advocacy of imperial interests. 3.an imperial system of government. [1855–60] im•pe′ri•al•ist,n.,adj. ...
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anners, in respect and laws, to as race, climate, gov though it belonged to another planet ; and, secondly, that the people of the United States generally knew about as much of the domestic affairs of this one of their near est neighbors as they did of those of the empire otefmCpht...
His visit, however, ended up involving a lot more than that. Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, which talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea....