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Edward J. Larson is University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author, most recently, of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign.
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The World in Time: Power Play
Superior technology doesn’t always make for a successful empire explains historian Daniel R. Headrick in his book Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present.
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