Communist regime

Purpose: In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx wrote that “a specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism.” While the sort of Communism that Marx envisioned was in fact less powerful in the nineteenth century than Marx believed was the case,...

Nineteenth-century imperial powers

Imperialism is nothing new, nor is it exclusively a Western phenomenon. From ancient Mesopotamia to the Romans, the Mongols, the Aztecs, and many others, empires have been a constant throughout much of human history. Yet in the nineteenth century, imperialism took on...