I finally finished reading What If?, a collection of alternate history essays. Each essay takes a single event in history and analyzes how things might look differently today had that event occurred in a different way. One of the more intriguing essays was about Cortez and his conquest of what is...
As the 100th anniversary of the Great War approaches, I thought I would test the waters and see what some recent historians had to say. In his highly informative, historical tome on the lead-up to the Great War, Fromkin not only dispels the simplistic view that the assassination of Archduke Ferdi...
يفترض في الكتاب أن يقدم صورة لـ"المؤامرة" التي حاكها الغرب- بريطانيا وفرنسا وروسيا- على العالم الإسلامي- ممثلا في الدولة العثمانية- ما يعني أنه سيكون موضوعيا، فهل سينجح؟ هل يمكننا أن نتخلص من تحيزاتنا ورؤيتنا الخاصة للأشياء؟ أم سنصل لنتيجة يقال معها أنه لا توجد موضوعية أبدا؟ سترينا الصفحات!«الحرب...