Westward expansion and the Mexican American war
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Jackson believed in a strong presidency and he vetoed a dozen pieces of legislation, more than the first six presidents put together. He shaped the modern Democratic Party and dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s....
The American revolution: Briefings
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The main motivations behind the American Revolution can be summed up under the categories of “God” and “money”, meaning both ethical and economical. Ethically, the American Revolution took place because the colonists could no longer tolerate living under the king's tyrannical...
Jamestown vs. Plymouth Rock
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, Jamestown was founded on the basis of economic motives. As news of the economic opportunities spread throughout England, entrepreneurs of this company planned to expand...
Colonization of America
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Christopher Columbus reportedly discovered America in 1492 while he was searching for a new route to the Indies. At this time Europe had just recently emerged from the Middle Ages, and was experiencing an age of enlightenment. The idea behind the enlightenment was that a better world could be...
Holocaust survival and conformity
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Throughout The Drowned and The Saved there is the motif of conformity. Conformity during the Holocaust was necessary for survival in terms of life and death. The need for conformity to survive was present in the both the minds of the Jews and the Germans, soldiers and civilians alike. The need...
Development and causes of poverty in Rwanda
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
Rwanda is a socially and politically unstable country. It has been divided and ruined since 1930, by Belgian colonizers and wars. It cannot be denied that Rwanda suffers from many troubles. The first trouble has been colonization. Rwanda still suffers from the colonization period. This period has...
Kautilya and ancient Indian administration
Thesis - 5 pages - Ancient history
Indian administration in its present form is the culmination of its evolution since 321 BC when Chandra Gupta Maurya established his empire in the sub-continent. Over a period of time, the Mughals and the British contributed substantially to the formation of the Indian Administrative system. Free...
Revolutionary paroxysms January 1793- December 1794
Course material - 7 pages - Modern history
After removal of the Girondins, the Highlanders dominated the Assembly. Since August 23, the Jacobins are circulating a petition demanding exceptional measures against the suspects, and making the agenda of the Terror. On September 4, sans-culottes demanded bread in front of City Hall. Chaumette...
Between Revolution and Restoration
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
On May 2, the notables who had supported the First Consul came to meet Louis XVIII in Saint-Ouen, to propose a draft Constitution. The royal answer seems to deny any legitimacy to the revolutionary gains, 'Louis by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre...', the preamble seems to...
The Empire 1804-1814
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
England encouraged the resumption of cons-revolutionaries. It supports a proposed assassination of Bonaparte, according to the Comte d'Artois. The plot was discovered in February 1804. Bonaparte was informed that a member of the royal family was linked to the plot. He shot Duc d'Enghien,...
The fourth year of freedom, Year I of the Republic
Course material - 4 pages - Modern history
Two approaches to regeneration are emerging, a 'spontaneous and miraculous', the other 'interventionist and laborious'. This distinction does not coincide with the partisan divisions. The building becomes laborious and more credible. "We are destined to play the main role of a...
1802: The Revolution finished?
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
In 1802, the Republic included the left bank of the Rhine, Piedmont, as part of the Netherlands. These territories were departmentalized. The population has increased by approximately 750,000 since 1789, reaching 29.3 million. France remains as one of the most populous countries in Europe. The...
The monarchy in question and appeals to the nation 1783-January 1789
Course material - 4 pages - Medieval history
The reform party was an idea of Calonne, the king summoned to Versailles a gathering of notables. It includes capping the size for the poor, the establishment of a 'land tax', the abolition of customs and the free export of grain. The conduct of the Assembly of Notables do not discuss the...
1783: France contained, France moving
Course material - 7 pages - Medieval history
Each French is defined less by his individual identity as the body to which he belongs. The body, or orders, or communities, community groups are recognized by custom and by law, arranged in a hierarchy dictated by the prestige and service to society. These status distinctions are compounded by...
The impossible conservative republic 1795-1801
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The April 1791 elections brought about two meetings of royalist majority. The directors then took the initiative to rescue the Republic. They seeked for the support of an armed force. On the nights of 3 and 4 September 1797, the Army invaded. Elections were stopped. This apparent success sealed...
Constitutional monarchy to a republic : july 1790-january 1793
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
France is at war with Austria since April 20. On July 25, Brunswick promises the worst tortures in Paris where Parisians do not subordinate themselves to the king, which spreads out into the open connivance of the king abroad. Paris takes a petition calling for the overthrowing of the king. The...
The Nation, Law and the King
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
1790 to 1792 was a time of illusion of a constitutional monarchy. There existed democratic pluralism. The bulk of the nation was represented by political clubs being three in number. The first of these clubs was located in the Quartier Latin, 'the Cordeliers Club: Society of Friends of Human...
The Nationalities of Europe (1848-1914)
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
Garibaldi was born on July 4, 1807 in Nice, in a French liberal family. He saw Rome when he was 13 years old for the first time. And at that time Italy was occupied on all sides by foreign dynasties. He began his intellectual training in 1833 with a trip to Marseille. He encountered a colony of...
The Geography of the World System and limits
Essay - 6 pages - World geography
The world has become a challenge for geography: The World is a space, a territory under the control of a conglomerate. The World is a proper name designating an appropriate location; it can be taken as a geon i.e., a particular space, a region. The general geography has a thematic approach...
Napoleon : The Black Room at Longwood, Jean-Paul Kaufman
Book review - 6 pages - Modern history
The coup of 18 Brumaire had no bloodshed and it freed the prisoners. It was a coup appreciated by the French. Napolean established peace in Vendee. 60% of the 150,000 immigrants went back to France. In 1800, Napoleon returned to Les Invalides. "I assured order, prosperity and peace. All the...
Union Tradition, Institutionalization Dynamic and Industrial Democracy in France and Germany after
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The concept of industrial democracy is both old and generic. As such, it allows the comparative questions in an unique arrangements and ideas that have emerged in national and historical contexts. The notion of 'industrial relations' in France and 'industrial relations' in Germany...
About the authenticity and unity of Indian American identity
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
France Info, a well known French radio station, reported about the federal American Government's decision to grant 1.4 billion dollars as claimed by Elouise Cobell, from Blackfeet tribe, to compensate the native land dispossession since 1887. This news reset the question of Indian American...
The black Thursday: reasons and consequences into the USA
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
It is during the First World War that America has really developed its industry to conquer the first place in the world, and it seems to have retained the position even till today. During times of war, European economies were destroyed and Americans developed new technologies and industries as...
To what extent were the Sciences enrolled to reform the Old Regime?
Essay - 2 pages - Medieval history
The 16th century has been the century of the Scientific Revolution. Throughout Europe, Science renewed in a new form, and that rebirth gave what we call today the Scientific Revolution. Two centuries before, France had it's most important political revolution in 1789. After the French...
The battle of Kosovo and Kosovo
Course material - 21 pages - Medieval history
On 28 June 1389 a famous battle took place at Gazimestan, leaving a lasting impression on the collective memory of the Serbs. The death of both rulers on the battlefield, the fierceness of the battle and the extent of military sacrifice on both sides left a strong impression not only on the...
Byzantium : The Balkans, Europe
Essay - 18 pages - Medieval history
As a thousand-year empire (324-1453), the universal state that was disparagingly called Byzantium by new-age historians, was the Christian and medieval continuation of the Roman Empire whose inhabitants called themselves Romaioi Romans. Christianity as the state religion and Constantinople as the...
Urban segregation in Sao Paulo
Essay - 7 pages - World geography
Since the 1950s, the majority of Latino-American cities have experienced a demographical growth and a major extension of their urban area. Some writers had even talked about the “monstrous cities”. In about half a century, from 1950s to 1990s, the demography of the cities boomed from 13...
The modernization of Russia through the urban transformations in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In the second half of the 19th century, Imperial Russia went through a lot of changes. Reforms of serfdom, administration, clergy and lot of others caused changes in the society and the formation of a new organization within the different social classes. The country was also going through a new...
1861-1875 : The construction of Charles Garnier's Opéra
Artwork commentary - 7 pages - Modern history
I do not engage politics with monuments, I have quite enough to do with architecture', said Charles Garnier, the architect of Garnier's Opéra in Paris. The construction of Garnier's Opéra was launched by Napoléon III and represents one of the most sumptuous buildings of the 19th...
On the job: Female journeyman wig makers in colonial times 1750 - 1800's
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
“In the colonial era, men wore wigs made from human and goat hairs and even wool or straw.”¹ The practice of men wearing elaborate wigs in the colonies originated in Europe and became fashionable here creating an industry that accepted women as journey women or apprentices for this...
