Timothy Mitchell is a political theorist and historian. His areas of research include the place of colonialism in the making of modernity, the material and technical politics of the Middle East, and ...

After the civil war, the Soviet working-class had nearly disappeared. It was even under the best of times a small minority of the population, never constituting more than 3 million in large-scale ...

The Center for International History has been set up to provide a forum for discussion and to foster historical perspectives on international issues of contemporary concern. It draws upon the ...

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olumbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in ...

Passenger service: October 1909 - 1957. Existing abandoned portions: Portions of track and track-level platforms, and an entrance at street level in the plaza east of 2 Ave. Touring: Walk around at ...

This page is restricted to stations that were part of the New York subway and elevated system and that were not underground. There are certainly many more abandoned stations and station sites in the ...

Blyden's idea's and speeches urging a return to Africa and the re-creation of an African Nation were to seed African conciousness movements all over the world. There is an unbroken line of black ...

The primary effect of the Aral Sea desiccation has been the significant loss of water in the sea. The water level has dropped approximately 23 meters since the onset of its primary sources of water ...

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The Aral Sea is situated in Central Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan. Up until the third quarter of the 20th century it was the world?s fourth largest saline lake, ...

1. Tables of the Proportion of Marriages to Births, of Deaths to Births, of Marriages to the Numbers of Inhabitants, etc. form'd on Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality, Christnings, etc. of ...