World History

Liberalism, freedom, and free markets were far less important in Latin American independence movements than in the fledgling United States. 

While the Chinese state is moving more toward autocratic rule, the importance of fighting for economic freedom remains as important as ever. 

Ludwig von Mises explores ways of dealing with nationalism and conflict among linguistic minorities through the use of political confederation. 

Can political arrangements be dissolved peacefully? Legally? At the ballot box? By any mechanism short of outright violence and civil war?

Chris Calton concludes the story of William Walker and his hope of “Americanizing” Latin America.

Markets and trade offer far more benefit for ordinary people than participation in the state's wars. 

In March 1968, a crisis of confidence in the dollar on the free gold markets led the United States to effect a fundamental change in the monetary system. 

Restriction of the freedom of trade was, for members of the league, intimately connected with "landlordism" and the aristocracy. 

For Shakespeare, the story of the Roman Republic is a tragedy. Like one of its heroes, the Republic was eventually destroyed by its own success.

International exchange and economic freedom are mutually reinforcing, while protectionism is a form of political control.