“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The Shah "had traveled to Europe and had been fascinated by the march of progress he observed there. But, once back in Terhan, this fascination had not been translated into sustained Persian modernization, but rather dissipated in the Shah's intense but short-lived passion for the latest novelties. "He is continually taking up and pushing some new scheme or invention which,… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share
“The key ‘subtle influences’ were enumerated as: the rise of the city over the countryside, the loss of Britons’ maritime skills, the growth of refinement and luxury, the absence of literary taste, the decline of the physical form of Britons, the decay of the country’s religious life, excessive taxation, false systems of education and, finally, the inability of the British… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share
“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the country been the engine room of empire, the productive heart of the beast. But with Britain becoming more like a boardroom, investing money, taking decisions, but essentially living off the labor of others, and off the… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share
“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order of the Western nations as an equal, forever grouped with the countries of the East… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope to achieve… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
