# modern history (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover modern history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ivan Doig - Prairie Nocturne](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/ivan-doig-prairie-nocturne.html) _2026-08-20 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Almost all of Ivan Doig's novels are, like Doig himself, rooted in Montana - even when they stray out of the state. Prairie Nocturne takes as its jumping off point the communities of Two Medicine County, the fictional area of Montana based upon the ranching and farming area were Doig grew up. Earlier novels set here followed the lives of two intertwined families and they feuded over land and ## [Stephen King (Richard Bachman) - The Long Walk](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/stephen-king-richard-bachman-long-walk.html) _2026-08-20 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ The gameshow format exploded in popularity in the US in the late 1950s. The promises of instant wealth and exotic prizes combined with flamboyant hosts became a global phenomena, that has never really ended, merely changed. By the mid-1960s, when Stephen King began writing, they were a central part of US culture and had been exported globally. It is no surprise then that they offered a fertile ## [Bill McGuire - The Fate of the World: A history & future of the climate crisis](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/bill-mcguire-fate-of-world-history.html) _2026-08-15 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Bill McGuire is a respected geologist and climate scientist. His new book presents climate science, viewed through the prism of historical geological processes, to a non-academic audience. Reading it in the middle of a summer of unprecedented heatwaves it is both prescient and terrifying. McGuire's argument is quite striking. He shows how the processes that have taken place in deep geological ## [Emmanuel Terray - Marxism and "Primitive" Societies: Two Studies](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/emmanuel-terray-marxism-and-primitive.html) _2026-08-13 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Emmanuel Terray was a French political activist and Marxist anthropologist whose work was enormously important in the development of anthropological ideas. This short book is a collection of two seminal pieces, translated from French, wherein Terray grapples with the relevance of Marxism to anthropology. He does this by exploring the work of two other influential figures. The first of these is ## [Queen Victoria’s Handwriting and State Papers Deciphered by AI-driven Transcription Solution](https://review.gale.com/2026/08/13/queen-victorias-handwriting-deciphered/) _2026-08-13 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ |By Paul Schummer – Senior Manager, Gale Content Production, and Chris Houghton – Head of Academic Partnerships| We often use tools without understanding how they work. Chris, for example, has a hazy memory of learning how a vacuum cleaner works in a school physics lesson, but if you asked him to explain it now, he’d ... Read more The post Queen Victoria’s Handwriting and State Papers Deciphered… ## [Uncovering New Angles and Arguments with Text Mining](https://review.gale.com/2026/08/04/uncovering-new-angles-and-arguments-with-text-mining/) _2026-08-04 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ │By Georgia Platt, Gale Ambassador at Lancaster University│ Six months ago, I knew nothing about Digital Humanities or text mining. It wasn’t really a topic covered in my undergraduate degree in History, and I’d always been a bit unsure of the place technology has in historical research. Then I began my MA in Digital Humanities, ... Read more The post Uncovering New Angles and Arguments with Text… ## [Leon Trotsky - Fascism, Stalinism & the United Front](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/leon-trotsky-fascism-stalinism-united.html) _2026-08-02 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ In the early 1930s, as fascism in Germany grew from strength to strength, the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote a series of pamphlets and articles to explain the nature of fascism and to argue for a working class strategy that could defeat it. These articles, several of the most important of which are collected here, remain some of the best studies of German fascism and Hitler's rise ## [George Clare - Berlin Days: 1946-1947](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/08/george-clare-berlin-days-1946-1947.html) _2026-08-02 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ In 1938 George Clare, then aged 17 and an Austrian Jew, fled Vienna where he had grown up to escape the Nazi annexation of the country. Clare's parents would eventually die in the Holocaust, but in those pre-war years they initially ended up in Berlin where they expected to get passes to travel to France. Somewhat surprisingly, given the political situation, Clare fell in love with Berlin. Though ## [M. John Harrison - The End of Everything](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/m-john-harrison-end-of-everything.html) _2026-07-28 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Well they always say you shouldn't be afraid to try new things. I was unsure I would like M. John Harrison's latest book The End of Everything after I read the Guardian review here. As quite a literal reader I am uncomfortable with stories that aren't particularly clear on what's happening, or layer meaning upon meaning. Nonetheless I decided to give it ago, not least because I very much like end ## [Tomáš Tengely-Evans - Death Rides Out: Imperialism in the 21st Century](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/tomas-tengely-evans-death-rides-out.html) _2026-07-27 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ As Socialist Worker editor Tomáš Tengely-Evans has had to cover more than their share of imperialist conflict and the threat of such conflict. In the last few years we've seen war in the Middle East, genocide in Palestine, a bloody proxy-war between Nato and Russia over Ukraine and Trump's aggression against countries as varied as Greenland, Canada and Venezula. Understanding the tendency ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/n7kSI5FAJc3Z) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Jakub S. Beneš - The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/jakub-s-benes-last-peasant-war-violence.html) _2026-07-25 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ From the end of World War One through to the 1950s Eastern Europe's peasant societies were engaged in a new continuous "Peasant War". It is a struggle that is rarely acknowledged, except perhaps by those looking to understand the dynamics between workers and peasants during the Russian Revolution. Those who do study these events tend to seem the separately, as struggles around particular events, ## [Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/iain-m-banks-feersum-endjinn.html) _2026-07-25 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Despite my love of Iain M. Banks' science fiction novels I have never read Feersum Endjinn. When I first attempted it soon after it's first publication in the mid 1990s, I was put of by the "difficult" chapters. These are written phonetically, and I found them impenetrable. Today, after nearly three decades of text speak, I was less challenged by them. Perhaps younger audiences will find them ## [Bryan D. Palmer - Capitalism, Colonialism & Crises: The Remaking of Modern Canada 1960-2025](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/bryan-d-palmer-capitalism-colonialism_01257489849.html) _2026-07-23 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ The third volume of Bryan D. Palmer's trilogy on the history of Canada brings the account right up to the present date. Indeed, so recent is some of the material that it covers 2025. It means that there's the slightly uncanny experience, for this reader at least, of reading a history book cover events that are part of your own experience.Palmer opens his book by making a general point about the ## [History, Politics and Memory: Ostalgie in Contemporary German Society](https://review.gale.com/2026/07/21/ostalgie-in-contemporary-german-society/) _2026-07-21 · Gale Ambassadors · The Gale Review_ │By Matt Hudson, Gale Ambassador at the University of Durham│ October 3rd, 1990 became a symbol of post-Cold War optimism. As the reunification of Germany was marked with joyous celebrations, liberalism had emerged victorious. The collapse of the stagnant East German regime heralded not just the end of totalitarianism and censorship, but also the triumph ... Read more The post History, Politics… ## [Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/sinclair-lewis-elmer-gantry.html) _2026-07-16 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry is a delightfully cynical black comedy. It is also a book very much for our times. The eponymous Elmer Gantry is a happy go lucky young man, brought up in a stifling religious home, but now at college he's a partying, womanising and drinking law student. Realising that becoming a lawyer is hard work, and will likely keep him poor, he decides on a different course of ## [Bryan D. Palmer - Capitalism & Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890-1960](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/bryan-d-palmer-capitalism-colonialism.html) _2026-07-12 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Volume two of Bryan D. Palmer's trilogy on the history of Canada begins where the previous book left off. But, as Palmer immediately notes, Canada on the cusp of the twentieth century "was remarkably different than the disparate collection of British North American colonies" that had come out of the 17th century. Canada was now a fully fledged capitalist nation, with economic crises to prove it, ## [Nikolai Bukharin - Imperialism and World Economy](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/07/nikolai-bukharin-imperialism-and-world.html) _2026-07-07 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Three great works of Marxism mark the transition from Marx and Engels' work on economics into the modern era. They are Lenin's Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Nikolai Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy and Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital. Each of them was written to attempt to engage with a changing world - one where Great Powers had divided up the world and were ## [Hacking History Workshop Delivers Future-Ready Skills](https://review.gale.com/2026/07/07/hacking-history-workshop-delivers-future-ready-skills/) _2026-07-07 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ |By Chris Houghton, Head of Academic Partnerships| In June, Gale delivered its fourth Hacking History event at the Dahod Family Alumni Center at the Castle, in central Boston. The hackathon showed participants that digital humanities is not just about using technology in the humanities. It’s about building practical, transferable skills, applicable in many careers: finding ... Read more The post… ## [Christopher Clark - Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/christopher-clark-revolutionary-spring.html) _2026-06-28 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ In January 1848, Francesco Bagnasco, a radical Scilian who believed in the "universal regeneration" of society in the face of inequality, unemployment and hunger, spoke:The time of useless prayers has passed. The protests, the pleas, the peaceful demonstrations were useless. Fedinand II viewed it all with contempt; and as for us, a free people reduced to chains and misery, will it take us yet ## [R.F. Kuang - Katabasis](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/rf-kuang-katabasis.html) _2026-06-25 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ \*\*\* Spoilers \*\*\*Apparently R.F. Kuang explained the origins of her latest novel Katabasis on noting that "academia is hell" and extending this to what if academia was hell. In this sense it is a development of what has come to be known as "Dark Academia", a subset of fantasy novels that deal in horrors, violence and threat in universities. The dark side of academia.Katabasis begins like many a ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1f6QnaDPtvwz) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [Benevolence and Blame: The Question of Race in America’s Early-Twentieth-Century Tuberculosis Crisis](https://review.gale.com/2026/06/23/early-twentieth-century-tuberculosis-crisis/) _2026-06-23 · Gale Ambassadors · The Gale Review_ | By Alice Shadbolt, Gale Ambassador at the University of Liverpool | Between 1915 and 1940, tuberculosis posed one of the most urgent public health crises for North America and Europe. However, its impact was far from evenly distributed. In the United States, mortality rates amongst Black communities were consistently higher than those recorded amongst ... Read more The post Benevolence and… ## [Conor Kerr - Prairie Edge](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/conor-kerr-prairie-edge.html) _2026-06-22 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Grey Ginther and Ezzy Desjarlais are two Métis cousins living in an old trailer near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their days are a mix of drinking and endless card games; listless and dull. Grey is a disillusioned environmental and indigenous rights activist, fed up of the corporate NGO lobbyists, and the endless treadmill of well meaning white activists whose trajectory from college to NGO jobs or ## [Crystal Gail Fraser & Sara Komarnisky - Talk Treaty to Me: Understanding the basics of treaties and land in Canada](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/crystal-gail-fraser-sara-komarnisky.html) _2026-06-15 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ I picked up Talk Treaty to Me at a left-wing bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as part of my reading during a trip to Canada this month. Indigenous struggles over land, social and ecological issues have come to the forefront frequently in the last few decades as social movements by Indigenous people have fought to defend and extend their rights, and these have meshed with wider environmental and ## [Ken Follett - A Column of Fire](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/ken-follett-column-of-fire.html) _2026-06-14 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ A Column of Fire is the third book in the Kingsbridge series - Ken Follett's incredible popular novels set around the mythical Cathedral town of Kingsbridge. One of the reasons for their popularity in my opinion is that they focus on the ordinary people of the town, artisans, traders, workers and servants, and their relationships and working life. The first novel, which centred on the building of ## [Gale Fellows Present their DH Research at the Socio-Economic History Society Conference](https://review.gale.com/2026/06/09/gale-fellows-present-their-dh-research/) _2026-06-09 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ | By Masaki Morisawa, Product Solutions Consultant | On the sunny weekend of 9–10 May 2026, the 95th National Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society (SEHS) took place at Senshu University’s suburban Ikuta campus. More than 300 members gathered for the event, presenting and discussing topics as varied as promissory notes in Edo-period Japan, American ... Read more The post Gale Fellows… ## [Donald A. Bowman - My Battle of the Atlantic](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/06/donald-bowman-my-battle-of-atlantic.html) _2026-06-01 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ The corvette convoy escort ships from World War II have gained a remarkable amount of fame for a small ship that was designed to fill a military gap. As the submarine war against Allied shipping escalated in the first years of the war, convoy protection became an urgent requirement. Yet no ships existed to fill this role, and navies had little experience, despite similar events in the First War. ## [Hossam El-Hamalawy - Counter-Revolution in Egypt: Sisi's new republic](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/hossam-el-hamalawy-counter-revolution.html) _2026-05-28 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ The Egyptian Revolution of 2011, was perhaps the important event of the 'Arab Spring'. It was a seminal moment for me, and a generation of activists who saw Revolution on the TV and social media on a nightly basis. I, like many other activists, followed events closely. The fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak was a joyous day.Hossam El-Hamalawy was an activist, socialist and journalist during those ## [John Foot - Blood and Power: The rise and fall of Italian fascism](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/john-foot-blood-and-power-rise-and-fall.html) _2026-05-27 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ The rise of global far-right and fascist parties and movements is something of great concern to working people. It is, perhaps, the most dangerous time that the left has faced since the 1930s. While fascists and right-wingers have evolved and changed, as this penetrating article by Richard Donnelly shows, their core purpose remains intact. They aim for the complete destruction of democratic ## [Interpreting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and Global Security in Declassified British Intelligence](https://review.gale.com/2026/05/26/declassified-british-intelligence/) _2026-05-26 · Gale Ambassadors · The Gale Review_ │By Eleanor Turner, Gale Ambassador at the University of Leeds│ Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence offers unique insight into how governments understand and respond to global security threats. The emergence of nuclear weapons in 1945 fundamentally altered the structure of international politics, leading governments to rethink what military conflict could escalate… ## [Lis Angus - That Other Family](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/lis-angus-that-other-family.html) _2026-05-25 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ How would you react if suddenly, out of the blue, you discovered that everything you were certain about your parents was untrue? This is what happens to Julie Walker in Lis Angus' latest thriller. Julie lives a happy life as the mother of three teenage kids, happily maried to husband Matt, with a decent job at Ottawa's main public library. One day she meets Frances Boyle at work. Frances brings ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/p209fUZXC3w2) _2026-05-25 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [Alistair Macleod - No Great Mischief](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/alistair-macleod-no-great-mischief.html) _2026-05-25 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Preparing for a trip to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton one is struck how the interconnected history of Indigenous people and immigrants remain central to the region, and indeed the formation of modern Canada as a whole. Alistair Macleod's No Great Mischief focuses on the immigrant experience, those who left Scotland to settle in Nova Scotia, to work its land and mines and build a better life. It is ## [V.I. Lenin - Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/vi-lenin-imperialism-highest-stage-of.html) _2026-05-24 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ Lenin's short book on Imperialism is perhaps the best known of his extensive writings. So well known, in fact, that the edition I've just read is number 96 of the Penguin "Great Ideas" series. Make of that what you will. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism remains a key reference point because of the continuation of imperialism itself. It is a succinct presentation and defence of the ## [V.I. Lenin - The Development of Capitalism in Russia](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/vi-lenin-development-of-capitalism-in.html) _2026-05-19 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ First published in 1899 with a new edition in 1908, Lenin's The Development of Capitalism in Russia is a systematic exploration of the Russian economy at the start of the century. It is based on an extremely detailed reading of official studies and statistics for the Russian economy, something that can prove daunting to the reader as Lenin repeatedly cites figures for machinery, land, farms, ## [Willa Cather - O Pioneers!](https://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/05/willa-cather-o-pioneers.html) _2026-05-18 · Resolute Reader · ResoluteReader_ I stumbled upon Willa Cather's O Pioneers!' due to my interest in the people and history of the North American praire. First published in 1913, but in part based on the authors' own experiences as a youngster in the late 1800s, it feels like a very modern novel. Alexandra Bergson is the capable and highly intelligent daughter of her and her brothers' beloved widowed father. On his death she ## [Contours of Connection: Exploring India–Africa Ties Through Memory, Movement, and Meaning](https://review.gale.com/2026/05/12/exploring-india-africa-ties/) _2026-05-12 · Gale Ambassadors · The Gale Review_ │By Anushka Srivastava, Gale Ambassador at the University of Delhi, India│ India-Africa relations are strengthening in a new global scenario, driven by economic complementarity, strategic alignment, and a shared focus on multilateralism. In 2025, India strengthened its ties with Africa through several high-level visits. Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a significant five-nation tour in July… ## [America's Electricity Gap](https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-electricity-gap) _2026-05-03 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ US Power Investment is at Record Highs, Driven by a Solar & Battery Boom. It's Still Not Enough to Meet Demand Growth. ## [Laughing at Your Professors: Disruptive Behaviour in Early Modern English Universities](https://review.gale.com/2026/04/28/humour-and-misrule-in-early-modern-universities/) _2026-04-28 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ │By Benjamin Armus, Gale Intern│ From the raucous atmosphere of college sports to emergent subversive online cultures, the university experience has always been defined by a tension between institutional discipline and youthful rebellion. However, a rejection of decorum is by no means a modern invention; the halls of Oxford and Cambridge four hundred years ago ... Read more The post Laughing at… ## [Small Books, Big Ideas: Eighteenth‑Century Miniatures in ECCO](https://review.gale.com/2026/04/14/eighteenth-century-miniatures-in-ecco/) _2026-04-14 · Gale Review Team · The Gale Review_ │By Eleanor Leese, Acquisitions Editor, Gale Primary Sources│ As an editor at Gale, I’ve been lucky enough to visit some of the most prestigious archives in the country, but nothing has been as exciting as when I was invited to see the conservation lab at the British Library. By sheer good luck, the week that ... Read more The post Small Books, Big Ideas: Eighteenth‑Century Miniatures in… ## [Taiwan's Modern Miracle](https://www.apricitas.io/p/taiwans-modern-miracle) _2026-03-05 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ The AI Boom Has Delivered a 2nd Economic Miracle to Taiwan, Pushing GDP Growth Above 23%. It Must Navigate Rising Geopolitical & Economic Tensions to Keep it. ## [The Supreme Court Ruled Against Trump's Tariffs. Now What?](https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-supreme-court-ruled-against-trumps) _2026-02-21 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ Charting the Impact of the Supreme Court Ruling and What Comes Next ## [America's $1T AI Gamble](https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-1t-ai-gamble) _2026-02-10 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ US AI-Related Investment Keeps Breaking Records, With Total Software, Computer, & Data Center Spending Now Exceeding $1T Per Year ## [The Economic Legacy of DOGE](https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-economic-legacy-of-doge) _2026-01-20 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ DOGE is the Largest Peacetime Cut to the Federal Workforce in Modern US History, But it Failed its Supposed Budget-Cutting Goals & Broke Important Agencies ## [The 'No Hire' Economy](https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hire-economy) _2026-01-11 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest ## [America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs](https://www.apricitas.io/p/america-is-losing-blue-collar-jobs) _2026-01-06 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries ## [America is Flying Blind on Immigration](https://www.apricitas.io/p/america-is-flying-blind-on-immigration) _2025-12-02 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ Nobody Knows How Many Immigrant Workers Have Left the US Amidst Trump's Mass Deportations. That's Incredibly Bad. ## [California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs](https://www.apricitas.io/p/california-keeps-losing-tech-jobs) _2025-10-19 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ Amidst the AI Boom, Employment in Silicon Valley is Shrinking ## [The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom](https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff-exemption-behind-the-ai) _2025-10-05 · Joseph Politano · Apricitas Economics_ Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?