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Race and Revolution by Gary Nash

of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American soc...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

1848's European Revolution

were all closely related. Prior to the uprising the Italian peninsula was subdivided into a number of states that were under dynas...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

French Revolution Reasons and Resulting Changes

2004). These four million were called the bourgeoisie, and although as a class they were wealthy, individually most of them were ...

Jonathan Spence's Presentation of The Taiping Revolution in God's Chinese Son The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...

Differing Feminist Perspectives

feminists named. This is different from those embracing the ideas of the enlightenment for example. When De Beauvoir references t...

18th Century Jewish Population in France

In five pages this paper examines the French Jewry that existed during Napoleon's reign and considers religious communities in an ...

Property According to Edmund Burke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In seven pages this paper discusses how property was viewed by philosophers Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in Franc...

Nature of Revolution in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers

In three pages this paper examines the events that ignite into revolution as captured by filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's interpretati...

A Critique of A Tale of Two Cities

The first estate was comprised of the clergy, the second group was the nobles and the third was made of the rest of the people....

Lorca and Dario on the Industrial Revolution

In eight pages this paper examines chapters one and two of Ruben Dario's El Oro del Malorca and Frederico Garcia Lorca's New York...

Cynicism and War in The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

soon had a falling-out and Villa fled in December 1914 to the northern mountains with another rebel leader, Emiliano Zapata, an en...

Conservatism from 2 Perspectives

perspective in presenting a traditional African culture, but he also addresses deconstructing the counterfeit past that was superi...

How Their Respective Times Were Represented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this research paper examines how The Enlightenment was represented by Voltaire in Candide and the Industrial Revolut...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

Negotiation Style Comparisons Between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon

In twelve pages this paper compares the negotiating styles of the Kennedy administration's executive committee during the 1962 Cub...

Industrial Revolution and the European Standard of Living

In five pages this paper examines Europe's especially Great Britain's standard of living during the Industrial Revolution in a con...

Great Britain's Industrial Revolution

In seven pages this research paper discusses the social impact of Great Britain's Industrial Revolution with such topics as family...

Late 19th Century Leisure

the end of face-to-face communication (Stone, 1995). There were both positive and negative social side effects of the new technolo...

Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Perspectives on Society and the World

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the global and societal perspectives of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolu...

Revolutions in America and Haiti

In four pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared with Toussaint Louverture's leadership among the focal points of the d...

The First Industrial Revolution in the United States (1800-1890)

of communication. Communication was provided by rail and wire systems, creating more and more jobs and industries supporting job...

Transforming Tejas Into Texas

In four pages this paper discusses the massacres that characterized the Texas Revolution and features the Battle of the Alamo in a...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

government, one which would serve the needs of the common people, France still fell into a state of corruption. At the youn...

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...

Jewish People and the Impacts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution

In five pages this paper discusses how the Jews were affected by Napoleon's fall and the French Revolution. Five sources are cite...

Comparisons and Contrasts Between Herve and Alexis de Tocqueville

et la revolution (The Old Regime and the French Revolution) in 1856 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville died in 1859, wit...