The past decade has seen a spate of new work on empire in political theory and the history
of political thought. Much of this work has focused on the place of empire in the thought of …

By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain celebrated its possession of a unique" empire of
liberty" that propagated the rule of private property, free trade, and free labor across the …

DEPENDING ON WHICH SCHOLARS you ask and in which subfields of history you read,
the “imperial turn” and its close cognate, the “new imperial history,” are either in decline or …

Damn Great Empires offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his
encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book …

For the past twenty years, historians of colonial Africa have paid relatively little attention to
the impact of the Great Depression both upon African lives and upon the relationship …

Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that cultural intelligence is an important
requirement for those forces operating amidst the unfamiliar socio-political structures often …

The global eminence of the United States is diminishing relative to non-Western economic,
political, and cultural formations. Despite its unprecedented military superiority, its …

The conflict in Afghanistan 2001–2021 pitched coalition forces into the midst of a civil war.
Armed political rebellion of this sort presents practitioners with a deeply intricate problem; …

This article offers a history of the policy, practices, and personnel of initiatives focused on
maternal and child health, particularly puericulture centers, in the context of interventions …

The severance of the relationship between liberalism and nationalism and liberalism and
self-determination as well as an underestimation of substantive legitimacy led to confusion …