Month: August 2016

This bibliography contains references for material directly quoted in the courseware presented in class. It also includes references for some of the other books...

The War Begins The war for the Greater Middle East can be said to have been prompted by a near-hysterical over reaction to a geologist’s report stating th...

Agriculture, Nations, and Nation States We will begin with a discussion of Hydraulic Civilizations who discovered how to use knowledge of seasonal weather and i...

Countries and the Forces of History This course nominally is concerned with the period beginning in 1980. That is, from the Iranian Hostage Crisis (November 197...