Amoral geopolitics, more than any clash of civilizations, dictated Venetian-Ottoman relations. Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 604 pp., $34.95. THOUGH HISTORIANS know about the vast difference between ...
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Alan Taylor demolishes the fiction of happy warriors united in a righteous cause against ruthless overlords. Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016), 704 pp., $37.50. ALAN TAYLOR’S American Revolutions demolishes the fiction—deeply ensconced in the ...
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Making some really massive waves in history. by Kyle Mizokami There have been countless navies in the last three thousand years of human history. Built by ...
12 Maps Covering 12,000 Years of History Early Exchanges (10,000 BCE) Overland Empires (200 CE – 1300 CE) Maritime Dominance (1300 CE – 1914 CE) Conflict & Integration (1914 CE – Present) Early Exchanges (10,000 ...
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