...Adeeb Khalid Claims that countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran are driven by imperial legacies to engage in aggressive foreign policies may oversell the influence of bygone empires and uniquely Eurasian mentalities on present-day geopolitics. Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies...

... refugees Myanmar military junta Burma Bangladesh British Empire colonialism migration Buddhists Muslims Rakhine ethnic cleansing genocide Aung San Suu Kyi 149 Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy...

... Books , 2018 © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California book review Eric Tagliacozzo Sunil Amrith Unruly Waters monsoon pollution climate change British Empire natural disasters water policy Bay Bengal dams irrigation...

...Ronald Grigor Suny The Soviet Union was an empire within which nations old and new developed, changed, and eventually became self-sufficient enough to opt out. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Ronald Grigor Suny Vladimir...

... History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Chitralekha Zutshi Kashmir India Pakistan Srinagar Jammu Partition British Empire Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Islamist militancy Lashkar-i-Taiba Jaish-e-Muhammad Burhan Wani Hizbul Mujahidden...

...Sumit Ganguly A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise. The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India , by Jon Wilson . Public...

... Ottoman Empire Turkey Caliphate pan-Arabism sharia political Islam Islamists religion state building women's rights 31 [The] incorporation of Islam within state institutions nationalized religious authorities and teachings, giving rise to a hegemonic version of the faith. The Nationalist...

... Fanar Haddad Iraq borders colonialism sectarianism corruption Shia Sunni Kurds Middle East Sykes-Picot Ottoman Empire Baghdad nationalism 343 [F]ocusing on the supposed consequences of Iraq s artificial foundations diverts our attention from the real issues cumulative or immediate...

... , 2015 . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Monica Duffy Toft Elizabeth Shakman Hurd religious freedom human rights cultural imperialism Turkey Alevis Ottoman Empire book review To begin with, five facts:1...

... Suny . Princeton University Press , 2015 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Howard Eissenstat Ronald Grigor Suny Armenian genocide Turkey Ottoman Empire Young Turks World War In 1985, 69 scholars of Turkish...

... national self-determination nationalism internationalism hegemony world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark...

... British empires. This twin agenda made per- sonal sense to a transatlantic black elite, including W.E.B. Du Bois, and to many women who invested in the international aspirations as a means of improving their dismal political and legal status in existing nations. Writing on internationalism and nationalism...

... Ottoman Empire: the Nestorians, other Syriac Christian communities, and also there- MARK LEVENE is a reader in history at the University of Southampton and the author, most recently, of The Crisis of Genocide, which includes the two volumes Devastation: The European Rimlands 1912 1938 and Annihilation...

... to dominate the continent but did not remove it. As the former multinational dynastic empires czar- ist Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Tur- key collapsed in 1917 18, their place was taken by new nation-states. These countries struggled to reconcile peoples and frontiers in the ethnically mixed eastern...

... civilization globalization great war France Germany Russia czar czarist debt reparations dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark suffering cost Japan Turkey parallax united states US 1918 1914 324 The modern...

... have known better after the carnage in Europe had already begun. But of course they did not know that the war would last another four years, and bring down their own empire. Nor did anyone know that the war would end in 1918, with a fairly decisive victory by the Allies. No one knew whether they would...

... by Britain and France) as the primary force in nurturing a reformed postwar order. Its leaders recognized the need to enlarge demo- cratic participation at home (especially through a wider suffrage) and to ameliorate conditions in their empires. Tooze argues that support for self-determination...

...Michael A. Reynolds The Ottoman and Russian empires clashed for centuries, but Turkey's recent embrace of its imperial legacy has not emboldened it to challenge Moscow over the annexation of Crimea. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

...? A combination of sticks and carrots in Beijing s policies especially inappropriate car- rots deserves most of the blame for the deterio- rating situation. PERIPHERAL ZONES Until the nineteenth century, China defined itself as a Celestial Empire with a three-tier topography. The imperial bureaucracy governed...

...Elizabeth Schmidt A new book by Frederick Cooper seeks to change our understanding both of Africa's role in the global economy over the centuries and of how the independent nation-state replaced colonial rule. Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State , by Frederick Cooper...