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World War II and the Debates over Indian Independence

of whether or not continued occupation of India was well-advised. 2. The critics of British rule in India supported immediate ind...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" - A Post-Colonial Analysis

she felt marginalized within her own home - her thesis is that the reality of England is a far cry from the symbolic value it take...

Decolonization of the British Empire

well off as the invading country. This can be said of both India and Africa as recently as the 1940s and 1950s. The school of thou...

William Bradford and Captain John Smith as Examples of American Colonial Writers

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

Before the American Revolution, King Philip's War

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

Women's and Men's Roles in American Literature

to a particular position. Now, interestingly enough, the position of women was not as oppressive as it may sound. In fact, wome...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest by Steven Stern

resources against possible intrusions by other groups (Stern 22). Therefore, economic decline or improvement became intrinsically ...

Middle East Development and Colonialism's Influence

from the continent of Europe (Smith, 1994). The political power balance was shifting, the colonial powers were developing in the w...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Colonial Peru and the Short Story 'Rosa's Day'

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

Africa's Colonial Rule and its History

In seven pages this paper examines how Africa developed colonial rule in this historical chronicle that includes the tribal classe...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and an Intertextual Comparative Analysis with Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

in binary opposites, most commonly represented symbolically, in contrasts of light and dark, black and white, culturally in civili...

Colonial Oppression in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

arrived in America to enter a new life, a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an na...

Capitalism Growth and European Explorers

character that had not been seen with the Roman empire (Hooker, 1996). The Europeans in medieval times basically learned about mer...

United States and Ethnic Conflict

the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...

The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg

the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who c...

Haiti and Intervention Politics

that the United States and United Nations simply have not had very good records in terms of nation building. While the U.S. inter...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

Colonial America's Indentured Servitude During the Seventeenth Century

of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning b...

Colonial Latin America and Women's Social Code

Latin America). They are responsible for raising children and being charge of all domestic tasks. For the peasant lower class woma...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...

NC During Colonial American and Early Republic History

Bays, Rivers, Isles, and Islets belonging unto the Country aforesaid; And also, all the Soil, Lands, Fields, Woods, Mountains, Far...

Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

History of Colonial Order Construction

in the art and imagery of history, so too is it represented in todays modern images. The world has witnessed a parade of...