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the eternal battle
Inside every Presbyterian there are two wolves
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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On a related topic, I highly recommend Emily Hauptmann's book on how the rapid growth of political science was due in no small part to massive foundations—Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller—pouring money into major universities and directing the future of the discipline.
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700633777/
Foundations and American Political Science
Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today’s titans of philanthropy ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Learn more in my book Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Also available in Chinese m.douban.com/book/subject...

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October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Intrigued? More insight and praise for his book at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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the Napoleonic Wars had been so destabilizing that it motivated such methods

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Empire of Chance — Harvard University Press
Napoleon’s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature o...
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September 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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