http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/48/patrick-m-hutchison Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:31:18 -0400 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:31:18 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/72/examining-pope-pius-xii-and-print-media-coverage-in-the-us By Patrick M. Hutchison - Over the last few decades there has been an overflow of publications and discussions regarding Pope Pius XII in realtion to the Holocaust and World War II. Originally stemming from Rolf Hochuth’s “The Deputy,” the controversy was reignited more recently with the book “Hitler’s Pope” by John Cornwell. Most literature centers on either a defense or an attack of Pius, while others attempt to be neutral, with varying success. One of the central arguments that appears again and again is the supposed vagueness of Pius’ messages. Some argue that his encyclicals... Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/72/examining-pope-pius-xii-and-print-media-coverage-in-the-us http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/68/environmental-sustainability-in-china-a-historical-perspective By Patrick M. Hutchison - In “Food, Famine, and the Chinese State” Perdue analyzes cases in the Dongting Lake region during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Dike building was then, and is now, an integral part of the agricultural system. Perdue illustrates how dike building and necessary repairs were met with inconsistent success. “Community organization of waterworks construction and repair proved inadequate, because individual incentives contradicted collective needs. At times, this intervention [local official] was successful..but the dialectic of official initiative and community response did not always... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/68/environmental-sustainability-in-china-a-historical-perspective http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/64/breaking-boundaries-football-and-colonialism-in-the-british-empire By Patrick M. Hutchison - Finally, an article by Shaun Lopez, a stunningly handsome professor at the University of Washington, shows how resistance through football manifests itself in postcolonial Egypt. “Football as National Allegory: Al-Ahram and the Olympics in 1920s Egypt” is strikingly different from the other articles which are full of evidence of how football unified communities and became a way to instill indigenous culture into a new form of resistance. Lopez seems to suggest that football in Egypt, particularly in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, was an effort to break out of the colonized mold and become... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:35 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/64/breaking-boundaries-football-and-colonialism-in-the-british-empire http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/55/impressions-of-ashoka-in-ancient-india By Patrick M. Hutchison - In the latter part of the third century B.C. India was rapidly changing. The Mauryan dynasty was expanding across the sub-continent of India and the line of kings which had begun with Chandragupta had lost another of its sons, Bindusara. Bindusara's son Ashoka was the next of the Mauryan kings. The small amount of land left to conquer, Kalinga, was soon taken by Ashoka and with it, the entire Indian sub-continent was made a part of the Mauryan dynasty. Ashoka had finished what Chandragupta had started so many decades earlier. The conquest of the Mauryans had reached its natural climax and Ashoka... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:28 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/55/impressions-of-ashoka-in-ancient-india