Essays 571 - 600
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
they had the ability to address the debates of the French Revolution and debate gender based issues. The place of a woman at the a...
in recent years is may be argued that rather than evolution, which can be defined as periods of growth were there are no major uph...
propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...
led to a clear indication of twentieth-century totalitarianism that lay ahead (Sachs 253+). B. Georges Jacques Danton had...
Britain to the industrial revolution much quicker than its Chinese counterpart. Literature Review Kenneth Pomeranz, in 20...
after the Revolution, of course, the focus became the design and implementation of a new form of government1. The fledgling state...
properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...
experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest s...
facets of American society would change considerably. New modes of transportation and the new areas to explore combined with a be...
or "sold" forgiveness for a dead individual to a living one in order that they could be allowed into heaven. There was also the is...
government (or any government, really), Communist China has to create the illusion that the system is the best for its people. Thi...
totalitarian government (or any government, really), Communist China has to create the illusion that the system is the best for it...
Industrial Revolution as the result of Sir Richard Arkwrights creative combination of power and machinery, the nanotechnology surg...
to help the disadvantaged had to be public and systematic, rather than the private efforts then underway (Faragher et al, 2000). ...
the high rate of "structural transformation of the economy" (Kuznets 248). One such transformation is mentioned above: the shift o...
The system of capitalism that is seen as a necessary end may be equated with the Industrial Revolution, but of course they are two...
forward the 1979 Iranian revolution as the initial event that would lead to the war. While there had been a great deal of hostilit...
and boundaries or the actual physical contact among its members, but by the mental image of affinity," which he associated with "t...
early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...
The American Revolution occurred because of a long series of British wrongs. In essence, the colonists had four major...
European Renaissance occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a cultural movement with revelations in intellectual lif...
the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...
new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...
Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus...
a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...
as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...
There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...