Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American ...

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE. ... It becomes gradually clearer that the fact that her attentions are unwelcome will not check the course of social proselytizing upon which Russia has embarked.

Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk ...

The dictatorial control over medical practice that the Belgian Government attempted to impose and that resulted in the so-called doctors' strike last spring appears to have collapsed. According to ...

The theme of union-versus-disunion spreads along with the empire in the long 19th century. The growth of “settler colonies” (i.e., those populated mostly by British and Irish emigrants rather ...

Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large ...

Westward The Course of Empire. NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED. Since the retirement of Professor Merk in 1957, Harvard has been without a course in the history of the Westward Movement.