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Pivotal Historical Point of the 1789 French Revolution

so deplorable a condition as it did in France under the reigns of the last three Bourbon kings, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI ...

French Revolution and its Origins

was in large part what prompted the liberals to call for more equality (Halsall, 2004). The bourgeoisie and the peasants who comp...

Interpretations of the French Revolution

the tensions that existed were involved in all aspects, those concerning liberal, socialist, and conservative, and the tensions we...

The French Revolution: Causes and Effects

century and the first part of the eighteenth century (Lossky 7). Officially, he held Frances throne from the young age of five to...

The Impact of Female Actresses During the French Revolution

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...

French and Russian Revolution

fought and ruled over by many different people, most notably ethnic German nobles, Poland, Sweden, and finally Tsarist Russia" (Li...

French Revolution Progression

led to a clear indication of twentieth-century totalitarianism that lay ahead (Sachs 253+). B. Georges Jacques Danton had...

The Diary of Madeline, the Comtesse de Lyon

Lyon, Madeline has moved up in society. But now she is looking at a series of events unfolding around her that will change her li...

Revolutions: America and France

2007). These events were The three most important events that led up to, and caused it, were "the Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea...

Risorgimento; Italy Between 1815 - 1832

in the period following 1815 it is important to consider these changes as the administrative, judicial, education, and military sy...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

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 ...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment

wherein people began to argue that logical and scientific thinking were the answer to lifes questions. It was a form of thought th...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Precedents to the Revolution in France

European Renaissance occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a cultural movement with revelations in intellectual lif...

Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

French Culture and Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

carried out. The man was sent home to France when he developed a stomach ailment and the woman was sent home when she became pregn...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...

Consequences of 1905's Russian Revolution

the power of the peasants and their growing discontent. As time passed and conditions worsened, the people continued to get les...

Successful Communist Revolutions in China and Russia A Comparative Assessment

particular czar Nicholas II, an increasing dichotomy was created between the ruling class and the workers, and urban poverty deter...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Comparison of Richard Loncraine's Film Richard III and William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

Subjugated Women from the Renaissance to French Revolution Periods

This paper discusses how women's status went from oppression to rebellion during this time period in eleven pages. There are abou...

1848's French Revolution

In twenty pages this paper examines France's 2nd revolution of 1848 in terms of causes and effects from a sociopolitical analytica...

Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman in the Film Adaptation of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the television version of Miller's tragedy featuring Dustin Hoffman is compared with the original play that starred ...

Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke

This report consists of five pages and considers such issues as prejudice, attitudes, class, influences of place and time within a...

The French Revolution and Changing Alliances

The French Revolution had a reverberating effect not just on France but on the world. State relations changed dramatically during...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy

This essay pertains to original source documents from the period that are used to discuss the debate surrounding the Civil Constit...