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In Praise of American Empire by D’Souza

Iraq today under a misleading premise that it is being done for peace and democratic purposes. The truth is that there is an ulter...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

Alexander the Great’s Successors & Hellenistic Culture

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

Athenian Justification for Empire

of his reforms (King, 2005). Three of his reforms are of special importance: " the ban on loans made on the security of the person...

How the British Empire Justified Colonization

(NZ History Net, 2003). After 1840 five new Zealand company settlements were established, Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth w...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Iran Hostage Crisis: The Result Of Human Progress and Abandoned Morals

drive toward free speech and political freedom" (Rath, 1994, p. 530). The unrest became increasingly obvious with no chance to "q...

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations Between 1500 and 1815

world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

Justinian vs. Charlemagne

than its barbarian enemies, and seemed to be in the early stages of a broad economic expansion" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 50). But it ...

The Bill Gates Story

emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...

The Importance of Assyrian History

first king to actually inflict his control past his own city-state (BetBasoo, 2006). He essentially laid down the model that all o...

Geoffrey Barraclough’s Unconventional Interpretation of the Carolingian Empire in The Crucible of Europe

Carolingian Empire was a complete unification of Europe, but the denial of the many regional differences and the steadfast refusal...

The Vision of Alexander the Great

a third man, Lysimachus, was hired. From this tutor Alexander learned about culture and the fine arts such as art and music. Its c...

Religions in the Persian Empire 660 BC - 583 AD

Persian kings ... [and] became the official religion of the Achaemenid empire and flourished under its successors, the Parthian an...

The Benin Empire

boxes and finger harps. Intricate jewelry, ritual items, masks and bronze work of all kinds were its main trade. Business/...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

Empire of Faith; the Early 20th Century in the Middle East

has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...

Europe in the Middle East, an Analysis

The wishes of the Arabs themselves were acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nation...

White Porcelain in Korea

in the kiln by preventing polluted material sticking to them, along with this there were always found with wide foot rings, very s...

The Middle East and the Development of the Industrial State

the increasing development of centralized state powers devoted to the development of industry in countries such as Iran. The Ott...

Great Britain's Concept of Empire

citizens by every means available. Most colonization takes place because the invading nation states that they do so in the foreign...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Disney and its’ Media Ownership

a pull towards increasing interests (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004; Chalaby, 2003). Many firms have taken an approach where there i...

Contemporary Meaning of 'New Imperialism' and Tools of Empire by Daniel Headrick

In five pages this paper examines what 'New Imperialism' means in the modern context in a discussion of Tools of Empire by Daniel ...

Timbuktu and Sonni Ali

reign was not necessarily a popular one (History Channel, 2003). Although a Muslim, he mistreated Islamic scholars (and put many o...

An Empire Analysis

It seems that at least according to Marxs historical materialism, capitalism is a given. Capitalism is also needed to fund a futur...

Balkans and Ottoman Empire

to how this history impacted the Balkans, explores these arguments and evaluates these two opposing positions. Background Only 8...

Sasanian Foreign Relations

of the mid to late Sasanian Empire, when Persia (todays Iran) was an empire that rivaled Rome, internal politics and the ideology ...

China and Britain, a Tale of Two Empires

others, and they resisted allowing the Europeans to unduly influence their traditional ways and religion (Hostetler, 2000). Europ...