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The Arabic word for “the East” (literally, “where the sun rises”), the Mashriq (sometimes written “Mashreq”) is a vague geographic ter m specifically used, particularly in moder n times but in varying ways by earlier Arab geographers, for the eastern part of the Arab world. This sometimes extends …
While human beings have migrated across the planet in large numbers for millennia, political concerns about immigration arose following the emergence of the modern nation-state, which increasingly desired to define its territorial boundaries, regulate who entered, and conscript and tax citizens. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enormous …
Mass political behavior, mass action, and collective action for political purposes take place when a large number of people choose to participate in an action for political ends. While time, effort, and risk can be great, pressure may be needed to secure an individual’s limited participation or contribution. …
A mayor is the highest-ranking official of a city or municipal government. A mayor can wield extensive power in large American cities such as New York and Chicago or play a mostly ceremonial role in, for example, a modern English borough or town. In most countries, mayors are …
Owing their origins to the yakuza, Japan’s native organized crime group, Japanese ultranationalist societies gained strength in the ex-samurai class during the reign of Emperor Meiji. The purpose of one such society, organized in 1901, was the expansion of Japanese control past the Amur River, the border between …
The Boer War, from 1899 to 1902, was a conflict between Great Britain and the Boers, or Dutch settlers, in South Africa. The Boers were mostly farmers who had settled as early as the 18th century in South Africa. The British wanted to unify their Cape Colony and …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and brilliant theologian who was made famous by his role in the German resistance movement. He was executed in April 1945 for his involvement in plots to overthrow Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer and his twin sister, Sabine, were born on February 4, 1906, …
During the summer of 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, as many as 25,000 World War I veterans calling themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., to ask Congress for bonuses promised for wages they had lost while in service to their country. The …
Subhas Chandra Bose abandoned an intended career in the Indian civil service to support Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (INC) in the cause of Indian independence from Great Britain. However, he later found Gandhi’s nonviolent movement too moderate, attacked Gandhi for negotiating with the British …
The Boxer Rebellion in China was the culmination of the reactionary policies of the dowager empress Cixi (Tz’u-hsi) after she crushed the reform movement of 1898 and imprisoned Emperor Guangxu (Kuang-hsu), who had advocated the thoroughgoing reforms. The defeat of the Boxers by forces of seven Western powers …
A son of German immigrants who became a crusading attorney and the United States’ first Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis made his mark as a leading progressive and helped shape President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Brandeis was born in St. Louis but made Boston his home …
Although British control of Palestine started on December 11, 1917, the Palestine mandate was not approved by the council of the League of Nations until July 24, 1922, through the Treaty of San Remo. The mandate was formally established on September 29, 1923. Some of the causes of …
Although he lost the presidency three times, William Jennings Bryan used powerful oratory and sympathy for America’s downtrodden to transform the Democratic Party. In the Woodrow Wilson administration, Bryan tried unsuccessfully to keep the United States out of World War I. A committed Christian, he spent his final …
The Cairo Conference was convened by the British to decide how to govern their newly gained Arab territories after World War I. Opening in March 1921, the conference represented a virtual who’s who of British experts on the Middle East from the foreign office and the military. Lawrence …
China was Japan’s first target during World War II and fought alone from July 1937 until Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and British interests in East and Southeast Asia in December 1941. These events led to a general declaration of war …
Plutarco Elías Calles was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, taking over from Alvaro Obregón. He was the founder of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Party), which in 1946 would become the Institutional Revolutionary Party and dominate Mexican politics until 1988. Plutarco Calles was born on …
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940 and was drawn into Mexican revolutionary politics during the presidency of Francisco Madero from 1911 until 1913. Born on May 21, 1895, in Jiquilpan de Juárez, Michoacán, Lázaro Cárdenas was the eldest of eight children. When …
Venustiano Carranza Garza was president of Mexico from 1914 to 1920, having been a supporter of the Mexican Revolution of Francisco Madero. Born on December 29, 1859, at Cuatro Ciénegas, in Coahuila, he was the son of Colonel Jesús Carranza, who had served in the army of Benito …
E. Casely Hayford made enormously important contributions to the theory of Pan-Africanism and organized the National Congress of British West Africa. Casely Hayford became an inspiration for Ghana’s independence movement leader and first president, Kwame Nkrumah, though Nkrumah’s generation no longer accepted the British presence in the way …
Claire Lee Chennault grew up in rural northeastern Louisiana. He served as a fighter pilot of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War I. After the war he served as an instructor in the army air service, organized and led an air corps acrobatic team called Three …
