You wonder how Neoliberals took over from the New Deal coalition so quickly. I would say there were a few contributors to that but the main one is Nixon's realization (based on watching George Wallace) that after the Civil Rights acts racism was the cheat code for American politics. That is the fulcrum that conservatives tried to use against Roosevelt and the New Deal but mostly failed. Nixon had an easier time because the cracks in our economic and foreign policies started to become more pronounced in the 60s and early 70s, and the various liberation movements created a lot of unease amongst small c conservative Americans - especially labor union members. A mixture of racism, Calvinism and a taste for authoritarianism became the foundation of the Reagan coalition and the Republican party.
Regarding the map, I've come to the conclusion over the years that pre-Persian Wars Greece should be thought of as an empire - a decentralized one to be sure (perhaps the post-WWII "American Empire" is another example), but an empire nonetheless. Without colonization, my guess goes, core Greece could not have accommodated or fed its expanding population. A second guess is that the Greeks were perceived as aggressive enough that one can imagine much of the motivation of the Persian-Carthaginian campaign of 480 as preemptive, let's-attack-while-we-can.
You wonder how Neoliberals took over from the New Deal coalition so quickly. I would say there were a few contributors to that but the main one is Nixon's realization (based on watching George Wallace) that after the Civil Rights acts racism was the cheat code for American politics. That is the fulcrum that conservatives tried to use against Roosevelt and the New Deal but mostly failed. Nixon had an easier time because the cracks in our economic and foreign policies started to become more pronounced in the 60s and early 70s, and the various liberation movements created a lot of unease amongst small c conservative Americans - especially labor union members. A mixture of racism, Calvinism and a taste for authoritarianism became the foundation of the Reagan coalition and the Republican party.
Regarding the map, I've come to the conclusion over the years that pre-Persian Wars Greece should be thought of as an empire - a decentralized one to be sure (perhaps the post-WWII "American Empire" is another example), but an empire nonetheless. Without colonization, my guess goes, core Greece could not have accommodated or fed its expanding population. A second guess is that the Greeks were perceived as aggressive enough that one can imagine much of the motivation of the Persian-Carthaginian campaign of 480 as preemptive, let's-attack-while-we-can.