Showing posts with label countries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countries. Show all posts
Thursday, September 7, 2023

A review of Boris Fausto’s “A Concise History of Brazil”

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Note: The edition that I’m reviewing here was expanded by Boris Fausto’s son Sergio Fausto, to bring it up to date. The most populous countr...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

A review of Cecil Jenkins’ “A Brief History of France” (book)

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“The French people solemnly proclaim their attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Dec...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: South Asia and Indonesia

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“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A review of “The Irish Rebellion 1916” (PBS)

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“In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundr...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

A review of “Australia: The Story of Us”

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“It shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appoi...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: Angola

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The United States actually considered intervening in an African country called “Angola” … During the  Cold War , the United States actu...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

A review of Rafael Lapesa's “Historia de la lengua española”

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“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of China”

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“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

A review of “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire” (PBS Empires)

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Japan's initial contact with the West in 1543 In the year 1543, a Portuguese trading ship arrived in the Japanese island of Tanegash...
Friday, June 15, 2018

A review of David Starkey's “Monarchy” (U. K.)

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"God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King! God save the King ! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to rei...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Chaos in Cuba: Communist revolution, Bay of Pigs, and a close call with nuclear disaster

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"That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

A review of Alistair Cooke's “America: A Personal History of the United States”

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" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

A review of “A History of Japan” (by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger)

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"We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for o...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

A review of Andrew Marr’s “Modern Britain” series (1901-2007)

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"In this Act the expression 'Dominion'  means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commo...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Why Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan didn't go communist (like mainland China did)

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One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...
Monday, August 15, 2016

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of India”

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

A review of Fergal Keane's “The Story of Ireland” (BBC Northern Ireland)

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" ... the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall, upon the first day of January, which shall be in the year of our lord on...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

A review of “Mexico: A History” (by Robert Ryal Miller)

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"[The Mexican Empire] solemnly declares by means of the Supreme Junta of the Empire that it is a Sovereign nation and independent of...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A review of Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”

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"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...
Monday, July 1, 2013

A review of "Canada: A People's History"

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"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...