Has oil wealth been a blessing or a curse for the Middle East?
Oil has brough astonishing wealth, but alongside it political and economic stagnation. Why have results been so mixed?
Was there a Reagan Revolution?
He modelled himself on FDR and promised to roll back decades of liberal hegemony in US politics. But was it really a revolution after all?
The Great Society and the Progressive Tradition
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programme borrowed a lot from the 19th century Progressive tradition- including its shortcomings.
The Impact of the French Revolution on British Radicalism
In the years following the storming of the Bastille in France in 1789, the United Kingdom experienced a wave of popular movements that were “profoundly affected” both by the unfolding revolution across the Channel and ...
British governments changed their policy towards Ireland during the period 1798-1846 only because they were under pressure to do so
While few would doubt that in the period between the 1798 Irish rebellion and the lifting of the Corn Laws Britain’s relationship with Ireland changed dramatically, it seems clear that such changes in policy resulted ...
RE:A Fascist America In 10 Easy Steps
…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His ...
Little More Than A Holding Operation (?)
Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”, the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an ...
