Martin George Holmes

Latest work

Countering the Neoconservative Defense of the British Empire

04/22/2024 Mises Wire Martin George Holmes

One of the worst novels of the nineteenth century, aesthetically and politically, is Julius Vogel’s Anno Domini 2000 (1889). It is stylistically absurd because the author was a statesman with no...

JLS: Explaining the Interventionist Trend of British Liberalism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

10/17/2023 Power & Market Martin George Holmes

From the Journal of Libertarian Studies: ABSTRACT: Traditionally, scholars have portrayed British popular Liberalism as thoroughly laissez-faire, minarchist, and anti-imperialist before the late...

How Australia and New Zealand Helped Provoke and Escalate the First World War

04/26/2023 Martin George Holmes

Most Western historians claim that World War I came about because of aggression from Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, Great Britain and its ANZAC allies were not innocent bystanders.

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