The Irish Potato Famine
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
This document will analyze the Potato Famine that took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1850. It is referred to as one of the biggest disasters Ireland has faced. The Irish diet, before the introduction of the potato in the late 1500's, was based on animal products, which Ireland...
Mexican Immigration in the U.S.
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
Until the mid 1920s, US immigration was largely unrestricted, but soon after the Congress passed a legislation it limited the entry from all regions except north-western Europe. It began in 1965 and has been continuing thereafter, and has passed a series of liberal laws, including the Immigration...
Discuss the emergence of new forms of nationalism between 1848 and 1914. Answer with reference to one or more European country
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
Defining nationalism before considering its development and emergence in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th is useful because it offers us a good base for a greater comprehension of the phenomenon during this period of time. As Michael Hughes correctly points out in...
Why did the Allies win the Second World War ?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
It is a question very hard to answer without having to be hypothetical on some historical points and events. There can't be a ‘one and only' answer to this question exactly because of these hypotheses and the many independent events which could have changed the face of things for the...
The emergence of new forms of nationalism between 1848 and 1914
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
Defining nationalism before considering its development and emergence in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th is useful because it offers us a good base for a greater comprehension of the phenomenon during this period of time. As Michael Hughes correctly points out in...
Why did not French women obtain the right to vote before 1944? - published: 01/11/2002
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
France was the first country to establish male universal suffrage but one of the last Western states to institute Universal Suffrage: French women were not granted the right to vote before 1944. Many historians have pointed out this apparent anomaly and have used the idea of “le retard...
Women's life in North-Western China under the Tang dynasty - published: 01/11/2002
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
This essay focuses on Chinese women from North-Western China (the Chinese part of the Silk Road) under the Tang dynasty (618-907). It describes the main outlines of their everyday life, and study more closely the impact of the Silk Road - and its related cultural interactions - on their lives. In...
Women and the Industrial Revolution
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
This essay, examining both economic and social consequences of this upheaval, tries to determine whether women benefit from them, in comparison with their condition under l'Ancien Régime. England, France and Germany are studied here; there are great differences in the way they came to the age...
Why did not French women obtain the right to vote before 1944?
Thesis - 10 pages - Modern history
France was the first country to establish male universal suffrage but one of the last Western states to institute Universal Suffrage: French women were not granted the right to vote before 1944. Many historians have pointed out this apparent anomaly and have used the idea of “le retard...
Women's life in North-Western China under the Tang dynasty
Thesis - 5 pages - Medieval history
This essay focuses on Chinese women from North-Western China (the Chinese part of the Silk Road) under the Tang dynasty (618-907). It describes the main outlines of their everyday life, and study more closely the impact of the Silk Road - and its related cultural interactions - on their lives. In...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Worksheets - 16 pages - Modern history
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882. He was born into a well-to-do family of Dutch origin, President Theodore Roosevelt's cousin. The name 'Delano' was the maternal branch of the family which was descended from a Huguenot named Philippe de La Noye who...
The representation of the holocaust in the social and cultural life and its consequences
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
Celan's Todesfuge represents the mechanical death of millions of people in a simple and incomprehensible way. This incomprehensibility is also expressed in the letter from Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers (August 17, 1946): "Human beings simply can't be innocent as they all were in the face...
When, in your view, does 'the period of the Holocaust' begin and end ? Give reasons for your answer
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Although the Holocaust itself occurred during the world war, the period of the Holocaust stretches from the rise of the nazi regime in 1933 to the dissolution of the displaced persons camps in Central Europe after the war (Yehuda Bauer). Is the distinction between the 'Holocaust itself'...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period was a prosperous...
The Russian Revolution: Nestor Ivanovich Makhno and the Makhnovschyna
Worksheets - 5 pages - Modern history
Nestor Makhno, who led the libertarian rising in southeastern Ukraine, was one of the most fascinating and heroic figures of the Russian Civil War. His movement was the only peasant uprising of the 20th century which succeeded to create a libertarian society when the tsarist one was dying. But,...
North Britons : Patriotism and identity in Eighteenth-century Scotland
Worksheets - 6 pages - Modern history
From the Wars of Independence and the exploits of William Wallace (and even before) to the debates about the Act of Union and the fierce opposition of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, it is needless to say that Scottish and English histories have been most closely linked. Though, their relationship,...
Assess the impact of the French Revolution upon British politics and political thought
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As a close neighbour, Britain has been obviously affected by the French Revolution and the prolonged wars, at least because Britain was involved in the Revolutionary and Napoleon wars. But it is fair to pose that Britain has been influenced in a deeper way, in positive as well as in negative ways.
The Russian Revolution: the Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Black Sea Mutiny, in 1925, a movie was commanded by the Bolshevik power, it was to become the prototype of the political movie. Many governments had banned it for fear of revolutionary popular uprisings. In this movie, Sergei Eisenstein pieces...
What was the impact of the 1967 War on Arab and Palestinian politics?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The period after the Six day war is considered as the key period in the history of the contemporary Arab East where political regimes took a definitive shape. The period between 1967 and 1973 was important in the Arab-Israeli conflict owing to the fear (military) of Israel and the contradictions...
No single explanation can account for the partition of Africa. Discuss.
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In the early 1870s, the European countries had only 10% of the African territories, they were especially situated on the coasts, the majority were just trading posts. In eastern and central Africa, there was an English presence in Sierra Leone (since 1807), Lagos (1861) and Gold Coast (1830), the...
"The impetus for decolonisation rested more with metropolitan initiatives than with African nationalist pressures." Discuss
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The independences of the African countries ran from 1922 (Egypt) to 1990s (Namibia). But these independencies were the result of many decades of evolution; in the colonizing countries policy and in the growing African nationalism. Both aspects were actually very linked; chronologically and by the...
The Russian Revolution : The Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Kronstadt is a naval fortress, built in 1703 by the tsar Peter the Great, on the Kutlin island in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometres in the west of Saint Petersburg (which in the early days of the 20th Century was named Petrograd, and then later renamed Leningrad, and is now Saint Petersburg...
US-Japan relations after 1945
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
On the 7th of December 1941, Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, killing 3000 military personnel, and destroying a great part of the fleet. This led to a 4-year war culminating in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a milestone in human history (en...
Anglicization in 18th-century Scotland
Essay - 7 pages - Medieval history
From the Wars of Independence and the exploits of William Wallace (and even before) to the debates about the Act of Union and the fierce opposition of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, it is needless to say that Scottish and English histories have been most closely linked. Though, their relationship,...
The Scots and the Highlands in the 18th century
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
Do you discern a major change in the attitudes of eighteenth-century Scots towards Highland culture and society ? Bagpipes, tartan, kilts : How did Scotland as a nation come to adopt these symbolic elements of its cultural identity in the first half of the XIXth century ? Before trying to answer...
On the role of rural development
Essay - 8 pages - Geography
The evolution of the development agenda regarding rural areas over the last century, and especially during the last forty years, is striking. It has shifted focus from global modern economic growth through industrialization to a concern with the sustainability of the livelihoods of the poorest...
What were the factors that brought about the 'Prague Spring' of 1968?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
After February 1948, the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party through Coup of Prague implemented the Stalinist model of political organization, social model and economic development which contrasted profundly with the multiparty system which had featured Czechoslovakia in the First...
