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2004). These four million were called the bourgeoisie, and although as a class they were wealthy, individually most of them were ...

were all closely related. Prior to the uprising the Italian peninsula was subdivided into a number of states that were under dynas...

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

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...

of poverty lived on. In the early twentieth century, there was a significant depression and French farmers were hit hardii. One c...

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...

revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...

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

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

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...

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

and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999)...

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

who were most oppressed by the British rule. One author notes that the history of this goes back, beginning: "[I[n 1215 at a place...

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

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

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

in the first place (1996). When happened was that Fulgencio Batista, the leader of the "sergeants revolt" of 1933, had ruled Cuba...

revolution which swept through Europe. However, as argued by the Bolsheviks in 1917, most of the investments for the industry came...

a patch in the icy crust on one of the windows. The light seemed to look into the street almost consciously, as if it were watchi...

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...