Persia and the great war

Persia and the Golden Rule

My paper has two parts. First, I talk about the golden rule. After introducing the rule and its global importance, I explain why many scholars dismiss it as a vague proverb that leads to absurdities when we try to formulate it clearly. I defend the golden rule against such objections. Second, I talk about the golden rule in Persia and Islam; I consider Persian sources (Muslim and non-Muslim) an...

Unipolarity, StatUS Competition, and Great power war

The Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the invention of big science.

The revolutionary transformation in Russian science toward the Soviet model of research started even before the revolution of 1917. It was triggered by the crisis of World War I, in response to which Russian academics proposed radical changes in the goals and infrastructure of the country's scientific effort. Their drafts envisioned the recognition of science as a profession separate from teach...

Dismembering the male: men's bodies, Britain and the Great War

becoming a focus for nationalist and radical protest. Thirdly, there is the Costa Rican state. The book examines labour recruitment and controls, union organization and radicalization, the persistence of Jamaican cultural and religious traditions and the impact of racism and early Communist proselytization. Readers of this journal, however, are most likely to be interested in the section addres...

Expectation and Reality: The Great War in the Air

IN 1883, one year before the invention of the dirigible, Albert Robida’s book War in the Twentieth Century envisaged a sudden, crushing air strike, while Ivan S. Bloch’s 1898 treatise on warfare expected bombardment from airships in the near future. With the evolu­ tion of airships—in particular, the flights of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s dirigibles toward the end of the first decade of the ...