Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries ...

The peace lasted longer, but as soon as the Soviet Empire fell apart, new conflicts broke out. Again, the maps had to be redrawn. Stanislao Pugliese is a European history professor at Hofstra ...

Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires ...

Challenging the Idea of European Military Prowess in the Age of Expansion In an insightful look at European expansion from about 1500 through about 1800, Prof ... and others build sprawling ...

Here, to give you a small sense of European colonialism’s massive scale, is a map showing every country ... were fully absorbed into the European empires. This is why China is labelled as ...