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French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Haiti and Revolution

country on the path to freedom. The Haitian Revolution technically took place between 1794 and 1804 but the bloody French Revolu...

Conservatism and British Political Philosopher Edmund Burke

actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Reaction Essay on Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

France Before the Revolution and the Tensions Between the Sans Culottes and the Jacobins

those who joined in this group had some education, but none to rival that of the privileged classes. However, they had begun to un...

Political and Socioeconomic Conditions Necessary for a Scientific Revolution

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

Push and Pull Phenomena Within the Context of East Germany's 1989 Revolution

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

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

Significance of the Neolithic Revolution

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...

US of the 20th Century and Industry

industrial revolution did to some extent "undermine merchant capitalism" (Whalen, 2001) . Profit motive was ever-present and so th...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Russian Revolution and Its Impact

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

Comparative Analysis of PreIndustrial and Industrial Societies

so-called revolution to Sir Richard Arkwright who lived in the eighteenth century (Fisk 25). Of course, these are the very early r...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

China's Revolution and Red China Blues

and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cove...

Red Azalea and Dragon's Village

had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...

The Russian Revolution Historical Milestone

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

Understanding “The Big Switch”

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

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...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

Industrialization in the US Child Labor and the Progressive Movement

Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus...

Mao's Cultural Revolution and Durkheim

its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity" (Durkheim, 1956). As is obvious, such an ethos was the entire justification behind...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...

Post-Revolution Britain and Satirical Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...

The Puritan Revolution and Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

How has the Internet Impacted on the Global Environment?

The writer takes a broad look at the way that the use of the internet has impacted across the global interdependent with the prog...

American Westward Expansion

This research paper describes the way that the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, the cotton gin and th...

The Industrial Revolution and Women

This essay pertains to the question of whether or not the Industrial Revolution provided more opportunities for women in the 1830s...

Industrial Revolution Impacts

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the impacts of the Industrial Revolution. Demographic, social, and economic issues ...