Posts tagged History

2020

Review: John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle (2018)
21 October 2020 • reviews • france, history, john julius norwich
Review: Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (2007)
20 January 2020 • reviews • christopher clark, germany, history

2019

Review: David McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict (2012)
14 October 2019 • reviews • britain, david mckittrick, david mcvea, history, imperialism, ireland
Review: E. P. Thompson, Poverty of Theory (1978)
24 September 2019 • reviews • e. p. thompson, historiography, history, marxism
Review: Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History (2001)
4 May 2019 • reviews • historiography, history, postmodernism, richard j evans
Review: Lindsey German and John Rees, A People’s History of London (2012)
25 January 2019 • reviews • history, john rees, lindsey german, london

2018

Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 5
9 December 2018 • reviews • a people's history of the united states, history, howard zinn, liberalism, united states
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 4
28 November 2018 • reviews • a people’s history of the united states, history, howard zinn, liberalism, united states
Review: Orlando Figes, Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991 (2014)
12 November 2018 • reviews • history, orlando figes, russia

2017

Review: Michael Burleigh, Small Wars, Faraway Places (2013)
16 October 2017 • reviews • cold war, history, imperialism, michael burleigh
Review: Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery (1994)
13 May 2017 • reviews • capitalism, eric williams, history, imperialism, slavery
Free Trade and Imperialism: the cotton industry and British foreign policy, 1858–98
27 April 2017 • essays • britain, history, imperialism, nineteenth century, slavery, united states
Review: Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton (2015)
25 April 2017 • reviews • capitalism, history, imperialism, slavery, sven beckert
Do you agree that the Soviet cultural policies of the 1930s were a retreat from socialism?
21 March 2017 • essays • history, russia
Why, and through what means did revelations of atrocities in the Congo produce a ‘crisis of empire’ in the early twentieth century?
21 March 2017 • essays • africa, britain, history, imperialism, nineteenth century
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 3
13 February 2017 • reviews • a people's history of the united states, history, howard zinn, united states
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 2
7 February 2017 • reviews • a people's history of the united states, history, howard zinn, slavery, united states
Review: Robert Service, A History of Modern Russia (2003)
31 January 2017 • reviews • history, robert service, russia
Review: Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (2002)
26 January 2017 • reviews • capitalism, ellen meiksins wood, history, marxism
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 1
23 January 2017 • reviews • a people's history of the united states, history, howard zinn, united states
Review: Richard J. Evans, Altered Pasts (2014)
16 January 2017 • reviews • historiography, history, richard j evans

2016

“The 1917 Revolution was the inevitable outcome of the First World War”. Discuss.
8 December 2016 • essays • history, russia
What were the consequences of the Sino-Soviet split for the Cold War?
15 March 2016 • essays • china, cold war, history, russia
To what extent and in what ways is Imperialism gendered?
15 March 2016 • essays • feminism, history, imperialism
Review: Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography (2010)
9 March 2016 • reviews • biography, history, robert service, russia

2015

To what extent can the United States in the twentieth century be described as an empire?
8 December 2015 • essays • cold war, history, imperialism, united states
Why was the Swedish empire so short-lived?
16 March 2015 • essays • history, seventeenth century, sweden

2014

Has the role of religion in the French civil wars of the sixteenth century been exaggerated?
11 December 2014 • essays • france, history, sixteenth century
How ‘new’ was the ‘new imperialism’ of the period c. 1870–1914?
9 December 2014 • essays • britain, history, imperialism, nineteenth century
Did the Franco dictatorship emerge more from long-term internal Spanish conflicts, or as part of a ‘European Civil War’?
2 April 2014 • essays • fascism, history, spain

2013

To what extent can the outbreak of civil war in 1642 be blamed on Charles I?
4 July 2013 • essays • britain, history, seventeenth century