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Roman Empire's Leadership

In five pages this paper examines the text Hail Caesar by Fletcher Pratt in a consideration of leadership in the Roman Empire. On...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

New World, European Empires and Sea Power's Importance

Location is not everything. By listing a multitude of items, Mahan makes clear that the idea of capturing other countries by using...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

The Handicapped and the Film 'Edward Scissorhands'

Prejudices and bigoted attitudes are the issues discussed in this 5 page paper that uses an analysis of Edward Scissorhands to rev...

Colonization's Development and its Legacy

to maintain Great Britain as a military power on an equal footing with the powers of the European mainland?the great continental p...

The Legal Use of Child Labor in Pre-Victorian England

12 pages and 12 sources. This paper relates the specific views of the history of child labor and the use of child labor in early ...

The D. Keightly Book Shang & Zhou Dynasties An Historical Examination

The writer reviews the D. Keightly book Shang & Zhou Dynasties, which provides an analysis of the Chinese civilization includi...

Declining Revenues of AT&T

about macroeocnomic factors and the present economy is rather dismal. While some may minimize this factor, that should not be the ...

Edward Said's Orientalism

In five pages this paper examines Edward Said's 'Orientalism' in a conceptual illustrations There are no sources are listed in th...

Consilience by Edward O. Wilson

entirely supportive of its possibilities. Others, either had insightful dreams the night before, or had experienced more trial an...

Andre Schmid and the 'Between Empires' Period of Korean History from 1895 Until 1919

proclaim themselves a nation in a national liberation movement which has escalated over time. Nationalism has occurred in many co...

Does Karl Marx's Critique of Capitalism Rest on a Fallacious Philosophy of History?

mentality there is a difference, instead of the direct appropriation of surplus goods or labour there is the attempt to extract va...

The Significance of the Empire in History

something associated more with power and prestige than it is with the conquering of lands or people. He writes: "The original mean...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

Three Historical Perspectives on Roman Imperialism

"extension of power by ones own group over others," is basic to human nature and "does not call for special explanation.iii One se...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Athens and the Mitylenian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...

Values of the Greco Roman Societies

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Industry and Empire by E.J. Hobsbawm

In six pages Hobsbawm's argument that Great Britain was beginning the decline of its empire at the height of its economic powers d...

The Benin Empire

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

Assessment and Recommendations for Bundy Asia Pacific

The writer examines a case study on Bundy Asia Pacific supplied by the student. The case study is set in the 1990s, when Bundy, a ...

The Church and the Empire in the 4th Century

in the late Third and early Fourth centuries. Diocletian had ruled with an iron hand. He established a four-fold division of power...

Rome’s Great Peace and Julius Caesar

Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus served as the first...

Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire

to try to protect all clergy and stating that they could not be taxed (Religion Facts, 2011). This was not something the leaders i...

The Roman Empire: A Product of Absentmindedness?

under the rule of Trajan this expansion reached from Persia to England from the Sahara to the Rhine (The Roman World, 2007). "At t...

Realism and the Great Rome’s Great Peace

The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...