Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam's seventeenth-century 'golden age.' He provides a fresh, ...

His next project, “Oil Frontiers in the British and Dutch Empires: Land, Labor, and Environment in the Making of an Imperial Oil Regime, 1890-1940,” is supported by a grant from the Dutch Scientific ...

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London arguably has the largest collection of useless lumps of bronze masquerading as art in the world - bronze is the ...

The wars between England and France spanned more than seven centuries. The most famous of these conflicts were the Hundred ...

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