Why was the Gempei War important? Why were there many wars in Mesopotamia? Why did the Ottomans join the Napoloeonic Wars? Why did European nations form alliances in the early 1900s? Why did the French Revolution devolve into the Napoleonic Wars?
Why did African resistance to European imperialism fail? Why did the Dual Monarchy fail to end nationalist demands? Why was totalitarianism important in WWII? Why was anarchism strong in Italy? Why did the Spanish Revolution fail? Why did the British aristocracy decline?
Why was James K. Polk interested in aquiring California? Why did many Americans oppose the annexation of the Philippines? Why did settlers move west in the westward expansion? Why was the US interested in China during imperialism? Why did it take the United States so long to ratify th...
Asia and Latin America with security and administrative order. The Europeans divided the planet into a gridwork of entities — both artificial and not — andgoverned. It may not have been fair, and it may not have been altogether civil, but it provided order. Imperialism, the mainstay of s...
Empire and Imperial Ambition: Liberty, Englishness and Anti-Imperialism;in Late Victorian Britain The late nineteenth century is generally thought of as a period of imperial enthusiasm and fervour, however, beneath the surface there were currents of disquiet and discontent. In this book Mira Mat...
Question: Why did the Age of Exploration begin? European Exploration With a few exceptions, European travelers and traders had not strayed far from Europe during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. But this all changed in the fifteenth century, due to many reasons including a convergence of technologic...
In the same years, and as a way to compete their British rivals, a couple of French novelists carried out a similar narrative style, whose central topic was the resolution of a crime by a brilliant detective. By the 1860s, many European publishing houses published translations of the most ...
Readers have found religious and political allegory, existential enquiry, social satire, economic analysis, and representations of American imperialism, industrial relations and racial conflict. As Ishmael chases meaning and Ahab chases the...
Defense. A Senator asks Hagel: “It is vital to Israel’s security for you to go on national television and perform oral sex on a donkey… Would you do THAT for Israel?” A “yes” answer was, of course, expected from Hagel. The skit was never aired after objections from the usual ...
African cosmology. “When they couldn’t find the equivalent of the devil, they took one of the deities. [Christianity] intruded for the sole purpose, very often, of preparing the way for the real stormtroopers of commerce, imperialism, colonialism, exploitation,...