Maria Behrakis, a first-generation Greek and a trustee of the American College of Thessaloniki, explains that education helps to maintain Hellenism in the United States, something of paramount importance for the earliest Greek- Americans. . ..…
Finally, in arguing that no vital British interests were at stake in preventing German hegemony on the Continent in 1914, since, after all, German hegemony doesn't menace Britain now, Ferguson fundamentally misunderstands which power is actually preponderant in Europe today. ..…
Davies presents Thomas Hobbes emphasis on the necessity for the state to constrain human nature as the crucial, overriding insight of the era, move that minimises the significance of Enlightenment's more optimistic and radical legacy, from Spinoza to French Revolution... ..…