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Economic historian Harold James sets the Bush economic strategy in its historical context and hears dangerous echoes of past American failures.
A Dutch Pontius Pilate in SrebrenicaThe British diplomat and historian Harold Nicholson once said that a diplomat is an honest gentlemen sent abroad to tell lies for his country's good.
Add to the picture the two wars that the US is waging overseas – one of which is getting hotter and increasingly appears unwinnable – and what comes to mind among China’s leaders is the historian Paul Kennedy’s warning about “imperial overstretch.”
The French historian Henri Russo dubbed this new attitude “the Vichy Syndrome.”
“India,” wrote the late British historian E.P. Thompson, “is perhaps the most important country for the future of the world.
This, after all, is the country that had, as the historian John Robert Seeley once wrote, “conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”
Saudi Arabia’s Perilous PivotJERUSALEM – “The most dangerous moment for a bad government,” the nineteenth-century French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “is usually when it begins to reform itself.”
As the Princeton University historian Harold James has pointed out, the tables had turned: the US had taken up Keynes’s arguments, but creditor European countries, along with Japan, successfully resisted them.
In the end, “the Berlin Crisis was solved through the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis," the historian Ernest May argued.
As the late historian Philip Curtin documented, from the beginning of urban life, millennia ago, trade typically involved networks of co-ethnic merchants living among aliens.
John Dower, an American historian and specialist of modern Japan, studied the issue at length.
Pessimists have long viewed the Chinese economy as they view their own economies – repeating a classic mistake that Yale historian Jonathan Spence’s seminal assessment warned of many years ago.
Important recent books, such as Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains and University of Oregon political scientist Gordon Lafer’s The One Percent Solution, trace the intellectual origins and organizational mechanisms of the Republicans’ assault on democracy.
In 1824, the British historian Thomas B. Macaulay observed that “free trade – one of the greatest blessings which government can confer on its people – is in almost every country unpopular.”
The Anti-History BoysBERKELEY – If you asked a modern economic historian like me why the world is currently in the grips of a financial crisis and a deep economic downturn, I would tell you that this is the latest episode in a long history of similar bubbles, crashes, crises, and recessions that date back at least to the canal-building bubble of the early 1820’s, the 1825-1826 failure of Pole, Thornton ampamp;Co, and the subsequent first industrial recession in Britain.
China Deserves its Economic SuccessSHANGHAI – In the 1940s, the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee predicted that the United States and the Soviet Union would remain the world’s only two great powers.
The key to this process, according to Cambridge University’s Tony Wrigley, the great historian of the era, was the replacement of human- and animal-driven mechanical energy by more productive forms, such as coal and other fossil fuels.
Thant Myint-U, a leading historian of contemporary Burma (and the son of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant), likened Churchill’s move to “throwing Burma off a cliff.”
In this sense, as the historian Harold James has noted, mutualization turned out to be dynamite, not cement, for the new US federation.
As an historian, I saw this as a unique opportunity to witness history first hand.
One rule of thumb, offered 70 years ago by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz, is that those who advance an idea have an obligation to “their conscience and their God” to be sincere about it.
Summers cites the historian Rick Perlstein to remind us that Ronald Reagan’s political rise in the 1960s partly reflected his “railing against” the student protests at the University of California, Berkeley, at the time.
Neither the multicultural ethos (respect for “cultural diversity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance,” as British Labor Minister Roy Jenkins put it in 1966), nor official indifference to religious identities (as in France, where the state, as the nineteenth-century historian Jules Michelet put it, “takes the place of God”) has worked as planned.
Scholars and researchers – from former Princeton University Professor Perry Link and Columbia University Professor Andrew Nathan to Li Jianglin, a writer and historian focused on contemporary Tibetan history – and even businessmen have been prohibited from returning to China.
Consider Germany, the “biggest debt transgressor of the twentieth century,” according to the economic historian Albrecht Ritschl.
Both, of course, are by the same author: Felipe Pigna, a 45-year-old historian.
The historian Alex von Tunzelmann accused Ferguson of leaving out all of imperialism’s nasty bits: the Black War in Australia, the German genocide in Namibia, the Belgian exterminations in the Congo, the Amritsar Massacre, the Bengal Famine, the Irish potato famine, and much else.
When I was a student 50 years ago, my principal teacher was a leading Marxist historian and former member of the Communist Party.
He was a great historian and teacher, but these days I might be encouraged to think that he had threatened my “safe space.”
Still, they gave their early support to the MDF, a conservative party led by the historian Joszef Antal.
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