Empires have transformed political, social, and environmental landscapes in the past and present. Although much research on archaeological empires focuses on large-scale imperial processes, we use biogeochemistry and bioarchaeology to investigate how imperialism may have reshaped regional political organization and regional migration patterns in the Wari Empire of the Andean Middle Horizon (ca....

The American tragedy of slavery and the Civil War provides the backdrop for the exemplary spirituality of Atticus Haygood (1839–1896). The son of a Georgia slaveholder, Haygood served as a chaplain in the Confederate army. At the War‘s end, he returned to Atlanta to suffer poverty and humiliation under the martial law of conquerors. His spirituality developed as a positive response to the chaos...

1 Department of Fluid Dynamic, IMPA, Dona Castorina 110, Jardı́n Botànico, 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Oceanology Institute, Environmental Agency, Avenida Primera, 18406, Flores, Playa, 11600 C. Habana, Cuba 3 Laboratoire AOC, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Campus de Fouillole, 97159 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe 4 Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Matemáticas y Computac...

recensé : James R. Fichter (dir.), British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia the Middle East: Connected Empires across Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 353 p.

J.C. Sharman Empires of the Weak. The Real Story European Expansion and Creation New World Order. Princeton University Press, (NJ) 2019. xii, 196 pp. $27.95; £22.00. - Volume 66 Issue 1