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Dec 01, 2023 at 20:56 727

Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain

In his introduction to Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain (accept all Amazon cookies to go directly to the book; we receive a commission; Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr), the historian Richard Toye writes that the Attlee government needs to be understood not only in its immediate context but in the long sweep of Labour’s history. The aim of his...

Jun 14, 2023 at 22:53 Silvio Berlusconi

Italy’s furbissimo ladrone aka Silvio Berlusconi (September 9, 1936 – June 12, 2023) got a state funeral today. He was one of Italy’s richest men. He died a multi-billionaire. Furthermore, as the first person ever,...

Jun 14, 2023 at 17:24 A 2003 biography of Silvio Berlusconi

[Today, June 14, 2023 took place Berlusconi’s state funeral in Milan. Therefore, from our archives, part of an article written on July 1, 2003 and updated on July 2, 2003] Biography of Silvio...

Apr 03, 2023 at 20:00 Islamic Art

Some people living today assume that the West has always been leading the world. However, in 2004, John M. Hobson noted in The Eastern Origins of Western Civilizations (Cambridge, p. 272; Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de), in...

Apr 01, 2000 at 13:12 1537

A short history of Taiwan

History is no one-way street. It is among other things a combination of options, choices and coincidence. Before the fall of the Qing dynasty the first (limited) Chinese elections took...

Apr 01, 2000 at 00:00 2434

Jiang Zemin

Bruce Gilley: Tiger on the Brink. Jiang Zemin and China’s New Elite, Berkeley and Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1998, 395 S. Order the book from Amazon.com....