TABLE OF CONTENTS for 'HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: THE BULLETIN OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY' (April 2003)
You can visit our Web site and access excerpts from the essays, as well as the full text versions of a forum on the British Empire and Globalization (with Niall Ferguson, P.J. Marshall, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Andrew Porter, and Andrew J. Bacevich); an interview with David Brooks; and David Staley's essay on visualizing history. Go to http://www.bu.edu/historic and follow the links to the April 2003 issue of 'HISTORICALLY SPEAKING' or just click on http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/april03.html
Military Revolutions: A Forum --Geoffrey Parker, "Military Revolutions, Past and Present" --Jeremy Black, "On Diversity and Military History" --Dennis Showalter, "Thinking about Military Revolution" --Jeffrey Clarke, "On the Once and Future RMA" --Geoffrey Parker, "Random Thoughts of a Hedgehog"
Michael A. Ledeen, "Terrorism in Historical Context"
Miriam R. Levin. "Progress, Holes, Ruses, and Countercultures: September 11 as a Transforming Event"
Timothy M. Roberts, "1848 and American Frustrations with Europe"
Paul Lyons, "From Vietnam to Iraq: Lessons from the City of Brotherly Love"
The British Empire and Globalization: A Forum
--Niall Ferguson, "British Imperialism Revisited: The Costs and Benefits of 'Anglobalization'" --P.J. Marshall, "Beneficial for Whom?" --Robert E. Lucas, Jr., "Colonialism and Growth" --Andrew Porter, ""'Anglobalization': A Conceptual Step Backward" --Andrew J. Bacevich, "Does Empire Pay?" --Niall Ferguson, "Globalization without Gunboats?"
An Interview with David Brooks
David J. Staley, "Computers, Visualization, and the Representation of History"