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the years of 2000 to 2004 turned Israelis into centrists. They agreed with the Left that creating a Palestinian state was critical for Israel, so that Israel would not continue to rule over millions of Palestinians. Yet they also agreed with the Right that creating a Palestinian state would put Israel in grave danger.21 They were stuck. ON NOVEMBER

In the east, with the rise of Islam in the seventh century, ancient Greek learning was given yet another great historical impetus by the Arab caliphs and generations of Islamic philosophers, who methodically studied and translated the ancient Greek volumes into Arabic, a principal route by which the Greek treasures have survived to the present.

On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.

In an accident of history, Niccolò Machiavelli, who admired and feared the Ottoman Empire, completed his famous treatise of political philosophy, The Prince, the same year—1513—in which Selim defeated his half-brothers to secure the sultanate that he had gained in 1512.

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Chapter 2, “Circulatory and Competitive Histories,” develops and illustrates the concept of circulatory histories as the basis of the critique of sovereignty in the ‘national modernization’ narrative. To be sure, narratives of the past are perhaps necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute themselves as such. Before the modern nation-s

By the 1980s, Hittitologists and other scholars were seriously suggesting that an older and better-known enemy, namely, the Kashka, who were located to the northeast of the Hittite homelands, had instead been responsible for destroying the city.