Posts Tagged with ‘Books:History’
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American Empire: Going Across the Waters
23 Feb 2018Those of us who have spent anytime at all in Hawaii, usually on vacation, enjoying the fine weather, the…
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The Battle Cry of Freedom — The Beginnings of the Civil War
18 Jan 2018In these years when many have worried aloud about a neo-civil war brewing between American shores it is somewhat…
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The War at Home 1918-1923
20 Sep 2017I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t…
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A House Divided: Vituperation in the Beginning
11 Jul 2017One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to…
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WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
07 Jun 2017The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and…
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A Very Short Introduction to Fascism
07 Apr 2017The word fascist lost its adhesion to two particular strains of political movements decades ago and became a general term…
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Anatomy of Fascism
15 Mar 2017The bibliographic essay at the end of Robert O Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism is some 27 pages long. At about…
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The Populist Explosion by John Judis
06 Mar 2017The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the…
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
02 Feb 2017It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…
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Touring Italy In Books
23 Sep 2016Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction,…
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
02 Feb 2016The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every…
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Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain’s Memoir of WW I
17 Jul 2015Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, recently brought to view by the movie of the same name, unaccountably escaped my decades long reading…