Efforts to set up isolated societies from scratch have failed in much more clement places, sometimes very nastily; the messianic and millenarian tendencies behind such endeavours, clearly seen in ...

In part 3 of the Great Revolutions series, Dominic Alexander explains how the rank and file of the army forced Cromwell and ...

“The Iranian period is finished, I think,” Rifi told me. “In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.” ...

Revealing that... Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium Kenelm Burridge Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and ...

“The Taiping was a massive millenarian rebellion led by a frustrated scholar of peasant background, Hong Xiuquan. Hong's fanatical visions merged with a rudimentary understanding of Christianity ...

She maintains active research interests in broad cultural formations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia – such as popular culture, modernism, and millenarian movements – within the ...

No government in Jerusalem can tolerate repeated, escalatory missile attacks from a millenarian state explicitly dedicated to ...

But those are both claims that Musk approvingly shared with his 203m followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday – ...

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Some 40,000 Welshmen died during the First World War. The deaths were only one aspect of the tribulations which the Welsh, in common with the rest of combatant Europe, suffered as a result of the ...

Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of 'responsible government' in early British India Sudipta Sen 7. 'Green and pleasant lands': England and the Holy Land in plebeian ...

But I can imagine a reader who finds that a little millenarian: this idea that we’re going to have to make America collapse, or allow it to, before any change happens. Richard Beck: The end of ...