What the Mongols did for us
The Golden Horde wasn’t barbarous, it created the modern world
What the Mongols did for us
The Golden Horde wasn’t barbarous, it created the modern world
A plague of pastoralists
There are many reasons to read Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. One of them is to know, understand, and express wonderment, at what the Tutsis of Central Africa achieved in the five years before and after the year 2000. What they did was […]
What has Rome to do with Nairobi?
There are very few books which would attempt to connect the experiences of the 1st century British who lived through Roman conquest with the French under the Vichy regime in World War II. The The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons attempts […]