Well researched, generously footnoted, with a large bibliography, this is a work of scholarship intended for the well-informed specialist and anyone who likes to discover cause and effect in history, instead of slogans from politicians and talk-radio.
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 is best understood as a problem of instability on the American imperial periphery, solved through military power, rationalized by energy policy. The cause of invasion was material (oil in the Persian Gulf), the ideology couched in terms of national security (WMD and Muslim terrorism), based on the belief in...
Well researched, generously footnoted, with a large bibliography, this is a work of scholarship intended for the well-informed specialist and anyon...
With Charles-Victor Langlois we see a scholar who has mastered difficult sources written in 13th century Church Latin and vernacular French. And he is not content to simply retell stories from medieval chroniclers, but goes beyond to explore his central thesis about the development and evolution of royal power and government administration in France. Even when he appears to minimize or cast Philip III in a bad light, it must impress the modern reader that Langlois, a man of the 19th century, had the integrity to develop his thesis based on rigorous inquiry of primary sources, the essence...
With Charles-Victor Langlois we see a scholar who has mastered difficult sources written in 13th century Church Latin and vernacular French. And he...
