With the impregnable shadow transposed by the iron curtain gone, Eastern Europe was quick to open her doors, once again, to Western businessmen. ... Modern Romanian architecture has a lot of Western influence in it. ... Just a little further down the street there is an older movie theatre, an old communist residence, complete with columns by the front door, and a gothic cathedral "one of few that survived the communist regime. ...
The American Revolution A History In this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. One thing is quite certain, the American Revolution cannot be understood as simply battles won and oppression t...