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...University course A326 Empire: 1492–1975...How do empires work?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what a ‘system of empire’ is understand the key components – economic, military, logistic and cultural – which can help to make up a system of empire...How do empires work?: 1 Empires as systems of power - On 19 July...

...universal, yet passes through the brain as through a rolling mill which hammers it and stamps it with the stamp of our insipid physical nature, and what weight is more insufferable than that of this living cadaver which we inhabit? Instead of dashing towards the objects of desire that it cannot grasp, nor even define, it spends the flashing instant of life submitting to...

...beginners in mind, especially those who have encountered the classical world through translations of Greek and Latin texts and wish to know more about the languages in which these works were composed. If you have looked at a classical text in the original language, you may recognise the gap that can exist between 1) possessing the ‘tools of the trade’ for reading...