Posts Tagged with ‘Books:History’
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Unworthy Republic
23 Jun 2021History, as taught to children, throughout the world, is primarily a means of instilling national pride. What if, instead, its…
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
06 May 2021The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of…
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The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
17 Jul 2019I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such…
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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…
