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Understanding “The Big Switch”

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

Industrialization in the US Child Labor and the Progressive Movement

Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus...

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

Political and Socioeconomic Conditions Necessary for a Scientific Revolution

for new ideas to flourish. The two aspects of developing civilisation - socio-historical change and the growth of scientific thoug...

Push and Pull Phenomena Within the Context of East Germany's 1989 Revolution

degree of change which occurs. The revolution which would break out in East Germany in 1989 was, of course, integrally ti...

Wealth and its History

"common" birth (Defoe). She enlists the help of many aids along the way, and finds money to be an especially interesting and infl...

Five Themes for Increasing Performance

Management was first studied during the early years of the industrial revolution. Theories and practices have changed dramatically...

Articles of Confederation

This essay pertains to the Articles of Confederation, which was the first government created by the newly minted United States aft...

The Industrial Revolution and Women

This essay pertains to the question of whether or not the Industrial Revolution provided more opportunities for women in the 1830s...

American Westward Expansion

This research paper describes the way that the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, the cotton gin and th...

US of the 20th Century and Industry

industrial revolution did to some extent "undermine merchant capitalism" (Whalen, 2001) . Profit motive was ever-present and so th...

Significance of the Neolithic Revolution

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...

Comparative Analysis of PreIndustrial and Industrial Societies

so-called revolution to Sir Richard Arkwright who lived in the eighteenth century (Fisk 25). Of course, these are the very early r...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

China's Revolution and Red China Blues

and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cove...

Red Azalea and Dragon's Village

had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...

The Russian Revolution Historical Milestone

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Russian Revolution and Its Impact

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

1980s' Revolution in Romania and Poland

TASS to comment approvingly that Polish authorities were "taking necessary measure to restore tranquility" (Johnson 18). Just ei...

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

Contrasts and Similarities Between Haiti, France, and the United States from 1650 until 1850

which they were impacted and, in fact, in the manner they impacted others. France, the United States, and Haiti are particularly ...

"The Reagan Revolution And The New Capitalism" - Critical Essay

the impact of such aspects as the Moral Majority, traditional Republicans, old conservatives, the New Right, the libertarians and ...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

The Cuban and Mexican Revolutions Compared

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...