Images

Timothy Ines as Edward the Elder in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by Netlfix, accessed through IMdb, 2015.

Thomas W. Gabrielsson and Rune Temnte as Guthrum and Ubba in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by the BBC, 2015.

David Dawson as Alfred the Great in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by the BBC, 2015.

Alexander Dreymond as Uhtred of Bebbanburg in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by the BBC, 2015.

The Pull of the Monroe Magnet, illustration by Udo J. Keppler, 1913. In this cartoon depiction of the Monroe Doctrine, a colossal Uncle Sam, a national personification of the United States, forcibly draws toward himself...

A US marine poses with Haitian revolutionaries killed by American machine-gun fire, photograph published in the Tulsa Daily World, 16 October 1915. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Arrival of the French Expeditionary Corps into Mexico City, 10 June 1863, oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, 1868. Collections of the Palace of Versailles.

Hands off!, illustration by Louis Dalrymple, 1904. A political cartoon depicting US president Theodore Roosevelt invoking the Monroe Doctrine; Roosevelt's own amendment to the doctrine, the Roosevelt Corollary...

Expansion! The western patrol's long stretch, illustration by Louis Dalrymple, c. 1900. In this political cartoon depicting the Monroe Doctrine, Uncle Sam straddles the Americas.

Bronze coin of Antoninus Pius and Glycon, photograph by Classical Numismatic Group, minted in Abonoteichos, 2nd - 3rd Century CE. This coin was minted in with the image of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and the ancient...