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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

the industrial revolution sprang new industries where workers emerged as skilled as opposed to unskilled. Many of the skills they ...

the world" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 550). Raw materials and finished goods could now be shipped all over the country. The Cumber...

class conflict and the role of counter revolutionary forces. Georges Jacques Danton had great significance in the French Re...

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

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...

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 ...

of the twelve?man Committee of Public Safety elected by the National Convention, and which effectively governed France at the heig...

In seven pages this report discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events that inspired it with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevi...

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

grew tired of this gaping void in their marriage and had an affair, despite her complete loyalty and subordination to him. She ye...

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

illiterate rural population of which "60% lived in huts with earth floors and thatched roofs; 2/3 lived without running water and ...

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...

the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...

finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

to the Social Democratic party. (The History Learning Site) One author essentially sums up the message noting how Russia was a nat...

of development and socialization. For Freud, homosexuality in men appeared to be an example of a phenomenon he labeled as inversi...

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...