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2 giorni fa · It is with all this baggage I encountered Jean d’Ormesson’s 1971 novel T he Glory of the Empire, originally published by Éditions Gallimard, with its English translation released in 2016 and published by the New York Review of Books. Earlier than most, d’Ormesson invents textbook-style alternate history (a subgenre with pre-d’Ormesson ...
3 giorni fa · The year 2016 has delivered striking surprises: Britain’s recent vote to leave the European Union, rise of right wing anti-immigrant and anti-globalisation sentiments in the United States, nativism, narrow nationalism sweeping across parts of Europe (specially Britain, France, Netherlands and Austria), the rise of neo-Nazis in Germany and overall economic nationalism cross the globe.
4 giorni fa · Journey through the ages with "Empires in Time: The Spectacular Rise of Ancient Civilizations." 🏛️ In this enthralling video, we explore the incredible stor...
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5 giorni fa · Triumph and Tragedy: The Fall of the Aztec Empire. The collapse of the Aztec Empire not only marked the end of an era but also represented a significant turning point in world history. Emerging in ...
5 giorni fa · Prog nerds were always part of the metal scene even if they didn't invent it.
4 giorni fa · The rise of a transnational European elite who demanded ‘modernity’– bureaucratic transparency, legal reform, equal rights and representative institutions – resulted in attempts to reform in all of these empires, with differing success in adapting their power structures to the new demands or conscientiously rejecting ‘Europeanization’ (p. 364).
2 giorni fa · Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state is an emperor or empress; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or are ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being ...
