Military power permitted many of Europe’s dynasties to keep above the great magnates of their land, and to secure political uniformity and authority (albeit
The sums acquired by the administrators of this domaine extraordinaire in the period of France’s zenith were quite remarkable and in some ways foreshadow Nazi Germany’s plunder of its satellites and c...
The beginning of wisdom in human as well as international affairs was knowing when to stop.
A large military establishment may, like a great monument, look imposing to the impressionable observer; but if it is not resting upon a firm foundation (in this case, a productive national economy),...
Conquest has made me what I am and only conquest can enable me to hold my position.
Italian refrigerators outsold any others in Europe by the 1960s. This
Notwithstanding the damage which western imperialism did to many of the societies in other parts of the world, the exports and general economic growth of these societies do appear to have benefited mo...
Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to prot...
The cause of this transformation, effected by the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onward, was the determination of influential members of the Japanese elite to avoid being dominated and colonized by the W...
The loyalties which existed in the Italian body politic were familial and local, perhaps regional, but not national. The chronic gap between north and south, which the industrialization of the former...
For all the differences of time and circumstance, the German question of the last century was a microcosm of the European problem of the present.
It was vital for Germany, Admiral Tirpitz urged Kaiser Wilhelm, to build a big navy, so that it would be one of the four World Powers: Russia, England, America and Germany.10 France, too, must be up t...
The continued existence of all three states, France, England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, each with the potential to dispute Habsburg pretensions in the future, again confirmed that t...
The ideals of risorgimento, hailed by native and admiring foreign liberals, did not penetrate very far down Italian society. Recruitment