Finally, in a curious inversion of historians’ habitual priorities, it is less interested in how British imperialism affected ...

Essays in the History of Cartography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) Christian Jacobs, The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History, trans. Tom Conley, ...

Louis Daguerre’s 1838 photograph, the first-ever to feature a person, is a true marvel of photographic history ... ultimate zoom-out function on Google Maps. It’s like getting a postcard ...

An engaging and up-to-date history of humanity full of historiographical insight and the first world history focusing mainly on human communities, on society and culture." David Christian, author of ...

Vague talk about “Western imperialism” or “cultural Coca-Colonialism” may be good enough to fuel debates in ivory towers, but it cannot legitimate massacring the inhabitants of Bucha or bombing ...

Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper in Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused exclusively on the economic aspects of imperialism. We ...

Volume II documents and analyses genocide and extermination throughout the early modern and modern eras ... providing comparisons of nine cases of conventional imperialism with nineteen of settler ...

The Guevara Lynch branch of the family was so closely identified with the history of the local aristocracy ... The family wandered throughout Argentina for five years, seeking a site that would ...

The anniversary was overshadowed by a US offensive on multiple fronts— diplomatic, economic and military—against China, ...

describing his project as “unapologetically focused on this one image and this one atrocity,” making “no claim to being exhaustive in my account of either U.S. imperialism or the history of ...

June 14th has seen its fair share of remarkable events that have shaped the world as we know it. On June 14, 1777, the ...

something which many maps do today. The exhibit is divided into three sections: Typologies (which focuses on the evolution of lighting design), the Lightbulb (the aesthetic element to lighting ...