Centuries of isolation had left Japan technologically and economically unable to compete with the world’s great powers. Something had to change, and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying ...

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...

Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the textbooks that we brainwash our children with in the US, reality-based historians have oft observed that the history of civilization is a history of ...