Axis Empires. Toward a Global History of Fascist Imperialism

Editorial – Commodities, empires, and global history

Commodities are back in the news. The early twenty-first century seems to have witnessed an upsurge in the old conflict over valuable resources, leading to a global scramble for commodities, and bringing in its wake renewed international tension, war, dispossession, and environmental degradation. The Cold War clash of ideologies, it has been argued, has been replaced by global competition betwe...

Imperialism, research ethics and global health.

The New Global History Toward a Narrative for Pangaea Two

The author approaches contemporary history from a position that defines the expression “truly global” as earth-centered. On this ground, two kinds of global history can be distinguished: the non-linear geophysical history of first nature, which is alternately uniting and dividing the world-continent (called Pangaea One), and the revolutionary technoscientific history of second nature, which is ...

The global information infrastructure: empowerment or imperialism?

The hope has arisen that the internet will ultimately evolve into a Global Information Infrastructure (GII). The GII will create a global information marketplace and in the process narrow the poverty gap and eliminate many of the geographic obstacles to prosperity and equality. However commerce— primarily US commerce—is driving the development of the internet. As a result investors will want a ...

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...