History Essays

The bourgeoisie on the other hand had an equal amount of wealth as clergy, nobility, and the aristocracy but had no say in state affairs although the monarchy supported their trading efforts. So they allied with the urban poor especially the artisans who were more literate than the workers to dislodge the clergy, nobility, and the aristocracy from power.

Both the Riverina and the Perth regions exhibit some of Australia’s richest cultural heritage. When compared, it becomes extremely difficult to rank the two regions in order of their cultural possessions. Wagga Wagga – The town proudly stands out for the beauty of its Botanical Gardens exhibiting 9 vibrant flowers, striking hothouse flora.

Admittedly, liberal historians argue that Roosevelt restored hope and self-respect to tens of millions of desperate people, built labor unions, upgraded the national infrastructure and saved capitalism in his first term when he could have destroyed it and easily nationalized the banks and rail roads

The author states that Jerusalem developed a new city outside the old city that has high-rise buildings, schools, business shopping malls, etc. From the history overview, it seems that over the past 3000 years, Jerusalem has been frequently conquered, destroyed, and rebuilt many times by conquerors.

People strongly supporting capitalism are known to be capitalists and the ones criticizing and opposing it are called communists. Adam Smith was the biggest admirer in fact the founder of the free-market capitalism. Amongst the followers of Smith was the Count Sergei Witte who was also the Finance Minister (1892-1917) of Russia.

U.S. History from discovery to 1877 Gary B. Nash's "Race and Revolution" examines the decisions and individuals that influenced the course of American history in regards to slavery and subsequent race relations. The book is a collection of essays that are accompanied by many primary source documents.

Since the experiences held by various individuals during the 1960s vary so tremendously according to factors such as age, location, social status, and family status, it is important to focus a study of this sort on a small set of demographics rather than by tackling the entire subject as it affected the world as a whole.

Globalization has brought economic, environmental, cultural, political and social dimensions into the forefront. Mainly it refers to an extended village, urban, national economies and across the border movements. Still, it can create a threat to the already diminishing sovereignty of nation states, who had always thrived on their territoriality.

In the field of medicine, epidemiology is as old as Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723, a merchant. Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of 'animalcules' from the white material he got from his teeth encouraged successive studies and findings on the existence of organisms that cause diseases as well as the spread of the same organisms in nature.

No generation in the People's Republic suffered more misfortunes than the Red Guards generation.They experienced the great famine of 1959-1961; in adolescence, they endured the Cultural Revolution which closed schools and sent them to the countryside; in their twenties, they were told to defer marrying and to have one child only when they did marry.

To add to problems with government in England, was its religious state. Most English people were members of the Church of England, yet they had different beliefs about the doctrine and rituals of the church. The Puritans were a group belonging to the church who wanted the church to be rid("purified) of its remaining Catholic practices.

The author states that perhaps all forms of cruelty upon slavery were being done by the white Arkansans towards the slaves of the land back then. Lynching, burning to death were just some of the major acts to punish the accused slaves with insurrection. A critical period of the African-Americans is at peak between the times of the state’s civil war.

Critic of nuclear proliferation argued that nuclear weapons endanger the existence of international peace and the welfare of the world. On the other hand, supporters of nuclear proliferation argue that nuclear weapons provide a deterrent against aggression from enemy countries.

The reviews covered include some of Yimou's popular films, such as, Red Sorghum, To Live, and Raise the Red Lantern. The paper also discusses how Yimou's cinematic vision has changed in his recent films, including Not One Less, Hero, and House of the Flying Daggers.

By the time the last American troops were being withdrawn from Southeast Asia in March 1973, America was suffering from a war on two fronts – one abroad in Southeast Asia and one with itself. An entire generation of anti-war protestors had emerged in response to the years of bloody fighting that had.

And the facts are that South of Rome the "Italian System of Corruption" still runs rampant. In Sicily you have the Mafia, in Naples you have the Camorra, meanwhile in the Puglia region you have the Sacra Corona Unita, and finally in Calabria you have La N'dragheta.

The roots of the Spanish-American War of 1898 were planted decades earlier in a popular notion known as Manifest Destiny. Though there was not an official policy of expansionism, Americans were acculturated to the idea that it was their right to spread westward and outward. The flames of American Imperialism were stoked by many diverse interests.

The Americanized name of the organization, Hesbulla, comes from the Arabic words Hizb'allah, or "Party of God". It is also referred to as Hizballah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, or Hezbollah, but for simplicity, Hesbulla would be used throughout this paper. Several sources were used as references to analyze facts and events with the highest level of objectivity, and not without difficulty, in order to increase the writer's understanding of international terrorism in general and as it is carried out by Hesbulla in particular.

On the side, Panama in continental America was established.2 With the epochal voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas and Vasco da Gama to the Indian Ocean in the 1490s, the voyages were made at a faster rate. Other European states echoed these explorations and in less than three centuries the European age of exploration changed the shape of the world.3

The myth of Oedipus Rex tells a story of a king how he kills his own father and marries his own mother, even though he tries to avoid his destiny but it turns out that destiny can never be avoided and hurts himself and others by trying to do so. The movie has a slightly similar approach, as Borat looks for his true love and it turns out that his true love was someone else.

This study will outline the spiritual, ideological and psychological way for tracing the course of Islamic expansion within the United States and how has the matter of race in the United States influenced the practices and the community experiences of black Sunni Muslims who conventionally see Islam as a color and race-blind religion

The author states that Crossing the Border is generally acknowledged by scholars as a fundamental book that chronicles the history of Buxton, one of the most successful all-black settlements in nineteenth-century Canada. In her work, Sharon A. Roger Hepburn traces the evolution of educational institutions, businesses, and political structures.

Cleopatra's early family experiences help to shape the way she would treat her family through out her life time. She used her wits and her body to help rule her kingdom. In the spring of 51 B.C. Ptolemy the Flute-Player died. He was succeeded by Cleopatra, who was then eighteen, and her brother Ptolemy XIII, who was ten.

Egypt and Greece both benefited from trade and commerce with the Hittites, and the Hebrews, who migrated to Canaan under Moses, were influenced by the philosophical explorations of Hittite culture as well. The Hittites’ most memorable - and most underappreciated - achievements included the discovery and development of iron, setting the stage for the Iron Age.

The author says that during the Second World War, the American government forcefully evacuated the Japanese Americans even though this was a strict violation of citizenship rights. This period in American history is one of the blackest blots on American history. Many Japanese Americans were enlisted as soldiers in the US Armed Forces.

Its historical allusion is towards the beginning of how religion has emerged and developed in which areas of the world as well as its impact on society and culture of the countries where religion is practiced, which therefore contributed to the present way of life of its citizens.

In truth, the American Civil War was an economic war that created economic decisions that would allow America to usher itself into the industrializing world. Although in most cases slavery saves money for capitalists however, the maintenance of slavery was another matter.

They are the legal representatives of workers. These representatives bargain over worker conditions and wages if the management of industries violates these provisions. They remain active politically by mobilizing their members and coalitions with other groups.

The author states that there have been serious debates and analyses on the origins and causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict and an exploration of the colonial influence, the British Mandate period, and the period of pre-partition can significantly offer some pertinent hint. According to some scholars, religion has been at the heart of the conflict.

The middle class was inching closer to luxury with the money it had made in investment markets. All signs were pointing up. It was precisely this shared spirit of unbridled optimism, however, that led to the crash and the subsequent depression; the Thirties were particularly horrific specifically because few, in their boom-era delirium, had foreseen that the wave, so long cresting, must eventually break.

Mexican migration to the United States began on a large scale at the end of the nineteenth century. Economic and political conditions in Mexico had created a large pool of impoverished rural people. Equally the incorporation of southwestern states into the US national economy meant a constant demand for a cheap labor force (Cardoso 7-9). 

The author states that the New York and Harlem Railroad was the first railroad built in New York State, which affected the Hudson Valley Region in economic, environmental, social, and political spheres. The intended route would connect towns in Westchester, Putnam, and lower Dutchess Counties with New York City.

Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for presidency in this convention. Defeating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase, he became the Republican candidate on the third ballot at the 1860Republican National Convention on 18th of May in Chicago

Yet it is undeniable that many of the modern economies which decry the practice of the slave trade and slavery, in general, have their own political and economic basis in a pre-modern slave economy. Moreover, much of the richness in culture and society is due to the intermingling of races that resulted from slavery.

Louis realised the seriousness of the conflict that no honest general could ever be liked by the court. Between a minister of finance and a royal court there was bound to be unremitting war, for the duty of the former was to economise so as to avoid state bankruptcy, and the function of the latter was to spend in order to give glamour to the crown.

The author states that reconstruction was some success, as it was able to help many African-Americans in the South gain freedom and citizenship through the constitutional process, even in the face of extensive racism. The North was able to redraft the constitutions of the southern states to assure male suffrage.

The author states that England, France, Germany, and Italy were all similar in demographics and industrialization when the Depression began. Yet, each reacted differently. England and France were able to maintain their parliamentary form of government, while Germany and Italy turned to totalitarian fascism.

The underlying essence of the account given by Jean Amery forces the reader to look closely at the reasons behind the torture program that went on in all concentration camps. Further insight into the life of Jean Amery reveals that he did not want to dwell on his victimhood for long. He believed that his time in Auschwitz was a part of life, albeit one that he needed to put behind him.

The author states that a new generation of teenagers were coming of age in 1960 and had brought with them the ideals and values of a youth that was predisposed to material goods and the norms as expressed on mainstream television. A generation had been formed by this new prosperity and old values were cast aside.

To characterize postmodernism, we must look briefly at what existed before it: modernism. "Modern" was once used liberally as an adjective to describe many things -from the latest kitchen gadget to a style of art.

Vladimir Lenin was the driving force behind the revolution even before it started. Throughout Russia had only one leader, Lenin, who planned, plotted, propagated and executed the task of bringing down the monarchy to replace it with the communist rule.

The Confederacy consists of seven Deep South cotton states seceded by February 1861, and includes South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. In the year 1861 four more states seceded and joined the Confederacy, and these states were: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.

What the Europeans imparted to the Native American population collectively were four basic things: disease, guns, alcohol and horses. Of these four, the introduction of the horse was the most beneficial to Native Americans. It was also, perhaps, one of the most culturally altering events for the American Indians.

The author states that many colonists had no desire to break away from Britain. They wanted to use the war to establish a better negotiating position for the eventual settlement with Britain of their future role in the Empire. It was only by June 1776 the Independence won a majority and a committee was set up under Jefferson to draft the Declaration.

As Porter (2002) points out in his writing, “British expansion was a matter of prudent negotiation rather than thoughtless aggression”, or even greed for that matter. This defines the building of the British Empire as a construction that was not done using war, but rather through discussion amongst other public figures of countries to gain treaties.

The 1960s-1970s were growth-oriented periods but with high inflation, and interest rate that again attracted the US government to act strategically and find a solution and save common men on the road. When the economy is undergoing fundamental changes the role of a strong government is a must that can provide a definite shape by enacting laws and framing favorable and right policies.

The author states that in the 5th century, it survived the fall of Rome and became the core of the Greek Orthodox Christian world afterward. During the reign of the Byzantine Empire, Emperor Justinian 1 was accounted for many imperial and administrative policies that improved revenues of the state and brought heights to Constantinople.

In the man's world of the Middle Ages, women were remarkably successful. The medieval church taught that women were inferior to men and that they should be meek and obedient to their fathers and husbands. Most women had to work for a living. Peasant women worked with their husbands in the fields did the cooking and made clothes for their families

The contrast between life on the frontline and life on the home front is skillfully drawn, and Chickering shows how each influenced the other. He brings the war to life in a unique manner. Many previous scholarly studies of World War I have concentrated upon two basic arenas.

The principle demands for artifacts in Italy were increasing role of religion and church in life of citizens and new consumption patterns caused by accumulation of wealth and financial prosperity.