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Essays 391 - 420

Understanding “The Big Switch”

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

George Washington and the Revolutionary War

as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...

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...

Industrialization in the US Child Labor and the Progressive Movement

Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus...

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...

An Assessment of US Blame for Globalization

Globalization has changed the world as we know it. In the larger sense globalization is simply the increased relationship between...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Dreyfus Affair's Impact on France

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

Has the Sexual Revolution Ended?

revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...

Latin America and the Foreign Policy of the United States

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

Urban Modernization, Rights of Workers, and Mexico

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

Was the Barons' Rebellion a 'Deliberate and Enlightened' Revolution?

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

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

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

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 ...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

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

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

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

Defending Robespierre

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

French And Industrial Revolutions: Changes To Society And Philosophy

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

The Industrial Revolution in America

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

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists

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...

The Cuban and Mexican Revolutions Compared

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...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

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

Factors in Bringing about the Age of Revolution

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

England After the Industrial Revolution

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

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 ...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

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...