Showing posts with label democracies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracies. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

A review of “Athens: The Dawn of Democracy”

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“Sparta, Athens , Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind. Yet were they as often...
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...
Friday, March 1, 2019

A review of Huw Edwards' “The Story of Wales”

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“ … That [the] said Country or Dominion of Wales shall be, stand and continue for ever from henceforth incorporated, united and annexed ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

A review of “Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire” (History Channel)

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Note: This is a different series from  “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” (which is made by the BBC). There aren't too m...
Friday, August 24, 2018

A review of “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” (BBC)

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Not to be confused with “Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire” (by the History Channel). “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” is n...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

A review of “The Roman Empire in the First Century” (PBS Empires)

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“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus , that all the world should be taxed.” - The New Te...
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, April 23, 2017

A review of Michael Wood's “Story of England”

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“... t here was not one single hide, nor a yard [endnote] of land, nay, moreover (it is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame t...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

A review of “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” (PBS Empires)

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"Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the nece...
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...
Monday, November 30, 2015

A review of Neil Oliver's “A History of Scotland”

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"That the Two Kingdoms of  Scotland and England  shall upon the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof and forever after be  U...
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...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Reflections on learning about history of Ancient Rome

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"The great historian Edward Gibbon was right when he said that the story of the fall of the Empire was ' simple and obvious '...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Reflections on learning about history of Ancient Greece

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"The history of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a count...
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 ...