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...contend that we today are simply nineteenth-century imperialists come back to life, any more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit...
...became the bases of our Far Eastern policy until war with Japan brought us up against the realities of power politics. Then we began to realize, for almost the first time, that the power structure of East Asian politics had been held together by the British navy in the nineteenth century, and by the British and Japanese navies under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance from...
...bill, introduced into the House by nine state representatives, would amend two nineteenth-century statutes forbidding any individual or group to sell or publicize means of birth control. Those statutes, unlike the Connecticut law recently overturned by the Supreme Court, do not expressly prohibit the use of contraceptives...
...handles mountains of detail as concisely as any man can. Ulam has an engaging way of making his material seem contemporary. To describe the small provincial town where Lenin spent part of his youth. Ulam quotes a contemporary journalist's description of a typical evening and adds "If only nineteenth century Russia had had television!" Or he defines the Kadets, or Constitutional Democrats, with the following sentence...
...political movements in history have had behind them such a high portion of their society's brains as the Kadets, who within the Russian context appeared to combine some of the characteristics of the Americans for Democratic Action and the nineteenth century English Whige...